Koen Olaerts - Blogs

ACA IT-Solutions has been a Liferay Partner for many years, and is even the only Liferay Platinum Partner in Belgium. One of the advantages of this partnership is that we can view and review new products in a pre-release version. We recently received a pre-release version of the new Liferay DXP 7.2, which has just launched in early June. Here's a short summary of what Liferay wants to...

For a recent project, we developed an Angular application that uses Liferay DXP as the back end. In this Angular application we regularly make requests into the Portal back end for User information, Journal Articles, ... Mostly this works great as we have defined several custom REST end points in DXP from which we can make use of the Liferay services and other nifty Liferay stuff. ...

On October 6, 2017 my colleague Sebastiaan and I held a presentation at Liferay DevCon about a cool integration the COIN team made. We were looking for a fun and exciting Internet of Things integration in Liferay. After a fruitful brainstorm, we decided to use Philips Hue. Another couple of brainstorms later, we formed the actual idea. The setup was to create an imaginary...

At Coin we have developed SimpleEdit, a new and improved way for editing your documents stored in Alfresco or Liferay. Now that Liferay has moved on to DXP, we are in the process of upgrading SimpleEdit to this new platform. One of the required modules for SimpleEdit was a JSP hook that provided the user with buttons in the Documents section of the Control Panel and the...

So you want to search for your custom JPA entities in Liferay? Quite some documentation is already available but it is somewhat scattered over several blogposts and articles. With this blogpost I would like to give you a summary of everything you need to do, or more precisely everything we did, to make custom JPA entities searchable in the standard Liferay Search...