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Minhchau Dang | 05/01/2018 02:23

Welcome to the fourth entry in a series about what to keep in mind when building Liferay from source. First, to recap the previous entries in this series from last year: Getting Started with...

Ignacio Roncero Bazarra | 20/12/2017 21:43

Short explanation If you want to convert a third party library of your portlets (modules) into a Bundle OSGi to be used by all modules, you could create a new module with your third party library...

Zeno Rocha | 18/12/2017 18:17

The Liferay ecosystem is richer than ever, and our community members have never been as global. Each one of us has different interests and with all this diversity, it gets hard to understand the...

Richard Sezov | 14/12/2017 22:14

This year, the Knowledge Management team at Liferay set out not only to document Liferay 7/DXP, but to document it well. To do this, we identified several improvements we wanted to make: We wanted...

Olaf Kock | 07/12/2017 10:16

Yay, it took a while to get onto it again, and finally I updated Custom Navigation and it just went through the approval process yesterday. Now it's available for Liferay 7 and DXP as well. What...

Zeno Rocha | 08/11/2017 00:49

2017 was a great year for the Liferay Community. Many things were accomplished and we know that there are still many things to be improved. We created a new website where you can discover and stay...

Takeo Yasuyuki | 06/11/2017 06:09

While working on Elasticsearch debugging, I just made a docker-compose file to start up an external Elasticsearch with plugins that Liferay DXP / 7 installed with debugging tools. Hope this would...

Greg Amerson | 03/11/2017 15:04

We just released latest version of blade cli that includes all of the new npm frontend project templates. This also bumps the rest of the project templates to use latest versions of Liferay gradle...

Jamie Sammons | 23/10/2017 21:02

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of: Liferay Portal 7.0 CE GA5! [Download Now] What's New Blacklisting OSGI Modules: New in GA5 is the ability to blacklist modules from starting....

David H Nebinger | 14/10/2017 20:42

So I've been home for almost a week now after having attended Devcon 2017 in Amsterdam. I have to give a shout out to Pascal Brusset and his entire team for putting on a great event. The venue was...

David H Nebinger | 10/10/2017 04:44

So last week I'm sitting in an Unconference session at DevCon in a group talking about OSGi. I don't remember how it came up, but we got on a discussion about deployment issues and someone asked...

Anderson Perrelli | 09/10/2017 13:57

Well, I decided to write this post after breaking my head a lot (almost brains were flying everywhere), to be able to configure remote staging in a clustered environment. The staging is that...

Petteri Karttunen | 05/10/2017 15:07

More than once I've been asked to customise Liferay search to be "simpler" and more "Google like". In the first part of this blog series I'm going to create a custom search portlet from scratch...

Jim Hinkey | 05/10/2017 15:06

If you've been developing apps, hooks, and themes on Liferay Portal 6, you might be wondering whether you'll be able to develop apps the same way on DXP Digital Enterprise 7 and Liferay Portal CE...

Bryan H Cheung | 04/10/2017 10:03

Hello Liferay Community! I'm here at the Liferay Unconference in Amsterdam, listening to Brett Swaim talk about his real world experiences with upgrades and Staging. Earlier, I ran into Darryl...

Olaf Kock | 02/10/2017 15:29

Yay, another episode, and maybe in time to sweeten your trip to Devcon in Amsterdam. I spoke to Kristoffer Onias and Victor Ware. Both work on testing Liferay with different areas of interest....

Eduardo P. García | 02/10/2017 10:55

One more year, Liferay Developer Conference (DEVCON) will bring together developers from all around the world to learn about Liferay, our platform, available tools and the people behind the...

Neil Griffin | 14/09/2017 20:57

On September 13, 2017 the Liferay Faces project received a maintenance release according to the new Liferay Faces Version Scheme. The maintenance release addresses 226 issues: 124 bugs fixed 7...

Manuel de la Peña | 14/09/2017 07:02

Hi Liferayers! We'd like to share with you that we have created non-official, public Docker images from our master branch! And we are releasing them every day. The rationale for pushing to a...

David H Nebinger | 08/09/2017 13:21

A quick note for those using SiteMinder and Liferay... Liferay likes the Tilde (~) character, and uses it quite often for friendly URLs and other reasons. When fronting with SiteMinder, though, you...

Ashley Yuan | 07/09/2017 03:05

Hello all, We are pleased to announce the third release for Liferay IDE and Studio Installers. This version is mainly for bug fixes. Liferay IDE 3.1.2 GA3 You can update or install the new...

Minhchau Dang | 06/09/2017 19:32

Many months later, it's time to continue the series on Liferay from Source. For this segment, we'll start with the following question: why would you have wanted to build from source in the first...

Andrew Jardine | 18/08/2017 15:06

I recently responded to the thread in the forums where the poster was asking about Liferay 7 and it's compatibility with OSGI. I am a huge JRebel fan myself and, based on what I know of JRebel and...

sejal patel | 16/08/2017 11:08

Liferay 7 bolster for creating and deploying JAX-RS based REST services. JAX-RS is the JEE standards based approach for creating REST web services. As far as building up the real administrations it...

Eduardo P. García | 19/07/2017 18:44

A FAQ about Application Display Templates (ADTs) is how to render the fields in an structured web content when it is listed on an Asset Publisher portlet. Paulo Fernandes proposed in a blog entry a...

Ashley Yuan | 14/07/2017 02:05

3.1 GA 1 and Installers Released Hello all, The latest stable release of Liferay IDE, Liferay Developer Studio: version 3.1 GA1, and Liferay Workspace Installer 1.5.0 have been released. Liferay...

David H Nebinger | 12/07/2017 14:12

Taking a short break from the Vue.js portlet because I had to implement a repository proxy. Since I was implementing it, I wanted to blog about it and give you the option of implementing one too....

David H Nebinger | 28/06/2017 03:12

Introduction In part 1 of the blog series, we started a Vue.js portlet based in the Liferay Workspace, but actually there was no JS framework introduced just yet. We're actually going to continue...

David H Nebinger | 27/06/2017 16:09

Introduction In Liferay 7 CE / Liferay DXP, there are new facilities in place to help us create JS portlets. In this blog series I'm going to present a new project to demonstrate how to build...

David H Nebinger | 26/06/2017 13:01

According to Liferay: Digital Experience Platform (DXP) is an emerging category of enterprise software seeking to meet the needs of companies undergoing digital transformation, with the ultimate...

David H Nebinger | 21/06/2017 20:56

Just a quick blog today... When you start up LR 7 CE/LR DXP, you'll often see it stop while trying to validate LPKGs. This is a security measure which is used to verify that the LPKG files have not...

Jamie Sammons | 19/06/2017 16:45

I am pleased to announce the immediate release of Liferay Portal 7.0 CE GA4! Download Now! Update 6/28/2017: Ext Plugins - We thought we had a bug in CE GA4 affecting deployment to Tomcat and...

David H Nebinger | 17/06/2017 05:48

If you're a Java Architect or Senior Developer, you know just how important the Java access modifiers are. Each choice about what to make public, protected, private or package protected is...

David H Nebinger | 17/06/2017 01:51

So a question came up today how to access the current user as part of a REST method body. My friend, Andre Fabbro, was trying to build out the following application: @ApplicationPath("/myapp")...

David H Nebinger | 16/06/2017 03:05

So if you've started developing for Liferay 7 CE / Liferay DXP, I'm sure you've been hit at one point or another with the old "unresolved reference" issue that prevents your bundle from starting....

Bryan H Cheung | 15/06/2017 23:49

Today I’m writing to announce several new and exciting initiatives within the Liferay Community. We consider this to be the starting point for a completely revamped community experience. We also...

Jamie Sammons | 14/06/2017 19:23

Originally Published on the Liferay Community site We have exciting news about a brand new way you can connect with others in the Liferay Community. Right now, you have two platforms to share...

Milen Dyankov | 14/06/2017 18:11

Originally published on Liferay Community site Today we're announcing a new place for the Liferay Community! This is something we've been waiting for a long time and we're super excited to finally...

Zeno Rocha | 14/06/2017 17:56

Originally published on Liferay Community Liferay evolved from being a single-product company to a much broader organization. Most of the code we write every day is open source and we continue to...

David H Nebinger | 13/06/2017 04:19

The one thing I never understood was why the UI behind the /api/jsonws is publicly viewable. I mean, there's lots of arguments for it to be secured: Exposing all of your web service APIs exposes...