Blogs

David H Nebinger | 08/06/2021 03:34

So some time ago I wrote the Cluster Details marketplace plugin. Basically you drop this guy into all of your Liferay clusters and you get a nifty little control panel that tells you details about...

David H Nebinger | 04/06/2021 23:11

Introduction Recently I asked some of my teammates for ideas about what to blog about next. Most of the time I take my inspiration from different clients I work with or questions that come up on...

David H Nebinger | 18/05/2021 03:06

Introduction Historically developers have always wanted to be able to control site creation. It's not that Liferay admins are untrusted or anything like that. It is really more the case where...

David H Nebinger | 14/05/2021 03:10

Introduction Liferay has, for a long time, supported RBAC, the role-based access control. It is, of course, backed by the database so (inheritance aside for the moment) a user will be assigned a...

Jamie Sammons | 26/04/2021 21:20

Announcing Liferay Commerce 4.0 We’re excited to continue expanding and improving upon the Liferay Commerce product. The latest version of Commerce offers improvements in data integration and...

Jamie Sammons | 26/04/2021 20:25

Announcing Liferay Portal 7.4 CE GA1 Liferay Portal 7.4 CE GA1 marks the first major release in the 7.4 release cycle. Although released later than hoped, Liferay Portal 7.4 CE GA1 continues...

David H Nebinger | 21/04/2021 17:07

Introduction One of the great advantages I have being known in the community is really the opportunity to meet, talk and work with talented developers and teams. Recently the team at ACSoftware...

David H Nebinger | 12/04/2021 22:29

Introduction So recently a couple of times I've seen folks ask how to send form data somewhere. Some want to trigger remote web service calls, some want to store the data in a different entity or...

David H Nebinger | 08/04/2021 16:04

Introduction Let me start by saying that I'm a huge fan of Upgrade Processes. I've actually written many blogs about Upgrade Processes or using Upgrade Processes:...

Jamie Sammons | 08/03/2021 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 | 13/02/2021 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 | 04/02/2021 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 | 01/02/2021 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 | 22/12/2020 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 | 19/11/2020 09:02

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 | 20/10/2020 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 | 13/10/2020 03:59

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 | 13/10/2020 03:52

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 | 15/09/2020 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 | 08/09/2020 06:56

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...