Blogs

Jamie Sammons | 8-mrt-2021 21:33

The Liferay Portal 7.3 CE GA7 release is primarily focused on fixes so no new notable features will be introduced with this release. Work continues on Liferay Portal CE 7.4 GA1 so look forward to...

David H Nebinger | 13-feb-2021 18:50

Introduction As of yet, there has been no official word that JDK 11 is supported by the Liferay developer tools. Just like the old delays going from JDK 7 to JDK 8, various third party tools and...

David H Nebinger | 4-feb-2021 19:31

What is the Mega-Jar? So the Liferay Dev Tools team recently included a new feature that they refer to as a "fat" jar, but I'm giving it the name Mega-Jar! This is a new single dependency that you...

David H Nebinger | 1-feb-2021 14:02

A community member posted the following plea on the Liferay Community Slack channel. I feel that it makes a great example, so I'm including it here. Hi I am migrating from Liferay 7.0 to Liferay...

David H Nebinger | 22-dec-2020 21:09

About a year ago, Liferay introduced a new program that I have been actively participating in, Liferay Developer Services. But what is this program? Liferay Support When you are a Liferay DXP...

David Gomez | 19-nov-2020 9:02

This time, things are a little bit different to last year (in case you haven’t noticed ). Our Developer Conference has been a great platform throughout the past 7 years to strengthen the Liferay...

Jamie Sammons | 20-okt-2020 23:11

At DEVCON 2019 we announced several initiatives aimed at streamlining interactions between us and our community in order to make it easier to find the information needed to aid in a project or to...

Jamie Sammons | 13-okt-2020 3:59

Commerce is one of our newer open source projects and we’re excited about the feedback we’ve received so far. Our last community release was 2.0 last year, happy to finally share 3.0. Fully...

Jamie Sammons | 13-okt-2020 3:52

Today marks one of our biggest releases to date. For the first time ever both Liferay Portal and Liferay Commerce are being released in tandem and Liferay Commerce is now bundled with Liferay...

David H Nebinger | 15-sep-2020 18:06

One thing that I commonly see Liferay admins doing is changing the user.timezone JVM parameter to their local timezone. I mean, I get why this might seem like a good idea. I only serve users around...

Olaf Kock | 8-sep-2020 6:56

On and around 24 September (depending on your exact timezone), we'll host the very first /dev/24 livestream. Technical information for 24 hours - sleep ahead, and schedule some recovery time...

Jamie Sammons | 13-aug-2020 19:58

We are happy to announce the release of Liferay Portal CE 7.3 GA5, this is our fifth GA for 7.3 this year following the new rolling release cycle that we adopted and announced earlier this year. As...

David H Nebinger | 12-aug-2020 3:11

Malcolm Gladwell is often misquoted as saying, and I'm paraphrasing here, you need 10,000 hours in a subject to become an expert. It's a phrase many of us have heard, whether attributed to Gladwell...

David Gomez | 7-aug-2020 10:11

Maybe you are (or have been at some point) afraid of sharing with the community, submitting a proposal to a Conference, or a User Group meetup because you think that you don’t have anything...

Abigail Pettit | 27-jul-2020 17:02

We are excited to announce the launch of our Twitter and YouTube accounts, where we will be posting education-related content such as tutorials, feature highlights, and product overviews. Make sure...

Brandon Pettit | 24-jul-2020 15:14

Hey All! I am happy to announce that the Front-End and Back-End Developer certification exams for Liferay DXP 7.2 have been released! Over the past few months, the Education team has been hard at...

David Gomez | 9-jul-2020 17:14

This is our fourth GA for 7.3 this year following the new rolling release cycle that we adopted and announced earlier this year. As with previous GAs, this new release is adding several very...

Jamie Sammons | 21-mei-2020 18:16

Docker Official images can be found on Docker Hub and can be used for deployments on any system that is running Docker. For more information on configuration options for the image see the overview...

David H Nebinger | 4-mei-2020 16:43

Just a quick one today... Liferay stopped releasing Liferay CE/DXP Wildfly bundles after 7.1, so I was recently asked to create a Liferay 7.2 DXP bundle for Wildfly 11. So I followed the...

David H Nebinger | 27-apr-2020 19:45

Recently I was helping a client who was suffering from performance problems on their site sometimes leading to node instability. After doing a deep dive, I found that most of the problems stemmed...

Bryan H Cheung | 20-apr-2020 17:44

In one of our company-wide meetings last year, I talked about how Liferay was born in the aftermath of the dotcom bubble bursting, and then pivoted to a subscription-driven business in the wake of...

Chema Balsas | 24-mrt-2020 8:09

TL;DR We’re considering consolidating all our UX for writing Rich Text Content around a single Editor to provide a more cohesive and comprehensive experience. We’re committed to study each...

Jamie Sammons | 23-mrt-2020 17:59

Liferay Portal 7.3 CE GA2 is our second release using our new Rolling Release cycle. For more information on our new release cycle please find the announcement here. Docker Official images can be...

Jamie Sammons | 23-mrt-2020 17:51

All documentation is being centralized on a new site called learn.liferay.com. Learn represents a large scale effort within Liferay to completely re-envision, curate, and re-write documentation to...

Zsigmond Rab | 20-mrt-2020 15:44

We keep noticing that there is some confusion around the status of Resource Importer and other components, the Site Initializers, Accelerators and Fragments ZIP that people tend to consider as...

Ashley Yuan | 10-mrt-2020 13:32

The new Liferay IntelliJ 1.7.1 plugin support IntelliJ 192 and greater. Head over to this page for downloading. Release Highlights: Compatible and adapt to JetBrains default Java 11 runtime New...

Samuel Kong | 9-mrt-2020 11:08

The best way to keep your installation of Liferay Portal secure is to always use the latest release - currently Liferay Portal 7.3 GA1. However, we’ve been hearing from you in the community that...

Olaf Kock | 6-mrt-2020 11:51

My originally announced trip to Switzerland has been postponed until after the pandemic, and with it the originally announced community meetup. I'm looking forward to a rescheduled trip in future,...

Jorge Ferrer | 28-feb-2020 12:00

With the recently released Liferay Portal 7.3 CE GA1, we are adopting a rolling release cycle for Liferay Portal CE. This means that we will have very frequent stable CE releases which will include...

Ashley Yuan | 27-feb-2020 4:54

Hello all, the new release of Liferay Workspace and Studio Installers 3.8.0 ga1 has been made available today. Download: Customer downloads: For customers, they can download all of them on the...

Sarai Diaz | 26-feb-2020 11:37

Since Liferay Portal 7.2, you can use the Personalization Capabilities to define Segments that allows matching the different types of audiences you have identified for your site and deliver...

David H Nebinger | 25-feb-2020 17:17

My friend, Olaf Kock, recently shared with me that he had struggled with and resolved an issue after moving to Tomcat 9.0.31 when using AJP. Update: What maybe we didn't know, Tomcat 9.0.31 (and...

David H Nebinger | 1-feb-2020 9:05

Just a quick one this morning... So I'm working on a project for 7.1. With my new love of the target platform, I decide I'm going to enable the 7.1 target platform for my DXP project. Everything...

Jamie Sammons | 31-jan-2020 16:39

We are happy to announce the availability of Liferay Portal CE 7.3 GA1. This is the first rolling release (announcement about this new release strategy coming soon) for the 7.3 series. What can you...

David H Nebinger | 31-jan-2020 5:03

Introduction So I get finished which the previous blog, Visiting DynamicQuery, and I shared it with my team. I'm always kind of happy when I get a new blog post done, so I share it with everyone I...

David H Nebinger | 30-jan-2020 18:12

Introduction If you've used any Liferay entities or ServiceBuilder custom entities, you've likely run into a situation where you've needed to perform a custom query to get a set of results that are...

David H Nebinger | 29-jan-2020 22:02

One thing I sometimes see is using a given Liferay feature the wrong way in order to do something. Take delivering content to the right users. Liferay actually has a bunch of ways to accomplish...

David H Nebinger | 23-jan-2020 15:57

I did an informal poll on the Liferay community Slack channel recently: I was actually kind of surprised by the majority of votes for the "What is the target platform?" option. So, inspired by the...

Dave Truong | 22-jan-2020 19:31

As we near the first GA of 7.3, one change we've managed to make was to migrate off Soy + Metal.js and fully onto React.js. The story reminded me of how far our frontend infrastructure has evolved...

David H Nebinger | 12-jan-2020 16:43

Classic Liferay Localization Handling Any developer who has been around for awhile will have some knowledge of how Liferay handled localization for the entities... In your service.xml file where...

David H Nebinger | 3-jan-2020 3:59

So I've been seeing this a lot recently, so I thought I'd do a quick blog about it... With web contents, we can build structures to provide an organized chunk of data, and then we can define a...

Jamie Sammons | 18-nov-2019 18:49

Docker Official images can be found on Dockerhub and can be used for deployments on any system that is running Docker. For more information on configuration options for the image see the overview...

Javier Gamarra | 17-nov-2019 17:02

Liferay 7.2 GA2 brings us many awesome new features but I'm particularly proud of one: GraphQL support. Starting today you can build dynamic JS applications with your preferred framework (which is...

David H Nebinger | 13-sep-2019 17:32

Recently when I was working on my custom Headless API blog series, I ran into a bit of trouble with my Service Builder-based persistence tier. My SB code was done and working, and I was adding...

David H Nebinger | 13-sep-2019 1:39

Introduction I've recently started working on a React SPA to take advantage of the Liferay Headless APIs. I was working through all of my implementation details and was finally ready to start...

David H Nebinger | 4-sep-2019 23:55

If you’ve spent time rummaging around Liferay’s search and indexing documentation provided here , you’ll find a lot of details about document contributors, index writers, search registrars, etc....

David H Nebinger | 3-sep-2019 21:44

Introduction Welcome back to my series on using Liferay's REST Builder tool to generate your own Headless APIs! In part 1 of the series, we created a new project and modules, and we started to...

David H Nebinger | 3-sep-2019 21:29

Just a quick post today... So I've been using the Target Platform like all the time now. I don't want to have to worry about versions, especially those Liferay modules that change version numbers...

David H Nebinger | 3-sep-2019 16:28

Introduction In part 1 of this series, we started a project to leverage Liferay's new REST Builder tool for generating Headless APIs. We defined the Reusable Components section, the section where...

David H Nebinger | 3-sep-2019 1:35

Introduction In part 1 of this series, we started a project to build our own custom Headless APIs using Liferay's REST Builder tool. The project was started, four modules were created and I...

David H Nebinger | 2-sep-2019 23:23

Introduction So recently I have been working with Liferay's new Headless APIs... I have a nice React-based SPA leveraging the new headless-delivery and headless-user-admin modules. I'm going to...

David H Nebinger | 27-aug-2019 5:13

Recently I was one of many trying to help a coworker figure out why a Liferay OOTB feature was failing... We had odd stack traces, null object references when OSGi never should have allowed a null...

David H Nebinger | 24-aug-2019 23:33

So the last couple of days I've been working on a new React Headless app that I'm going to be sharing soon, but for various reasons I've had to refer to the /api/jsonws page to check out the...

David H Nebinger | 23-aug-2019 18:20

Whenever I start working with a new client, I always share with them my three rules for effectively working with support: 1. Open tickets as soon as you think you will need Liferay Support. With...

David H Nebinger | 23-aug-2019 17:11

Just a quick post today... Helped a client who was getting a message in the logs after configuring the SAML SP in Liferay using an ADFS IdP: Caused by:...

Milen Dyankov | 6-aug-2019 21:07

Participate in an Open Source project? Meaning ... do what exactly? The trouble with that phrase is that everyone puts their own meaning in it. Some will claim it’s not participation unless you...

Milen Dyankov | 6-aug-2019 20:59

As expected (we wrote the redirect rules after all) and confirmed by our access logs, the documentation was the first place you discovered in the new Liferay Portal website. But did you notice what...

Milen Dyankov | 6-aug-2019 20:47

Have you been asked “What is Liferay Portal?” or “Why are you using it?” or similar questions? Given all the things it actually is and does, it is sometimes hard to find a simple and accurate...

Milen Dyankov | 6-aug-2019 20:25

It’s been almost two months now and most of you have probably managed to get used to the new websites and domain names. We invested a lot of time into making the right redirects and to not break...

David H Nebinger | 29-jul-2019 14:44

Hey, did you know that the Gradle version of the Liferay Workspace now supports building your very own customized Liferay Docker images? Neither did I... I stumbled upon this support in the recent...