Blogs

Olaf Kock | 2019-feb-26 10:11

It took me long enough to bring her on: She's followed Liferay's history for longer than some of the other founders: Caris Chan. And yes, that name means that she's Brian Chan's wife. During my...

Iacopo Colonnelli | 2019-feb-24 08:13

About a year and half ago, I was wondering if and how a tool like Liferay could benefit from containerization. Many other products had already been pushed on Docker Hub, but for Liferay there were...

Milen Dyankov | 2019-feb-20 18:26

About two weeks ago, Jamie Sammons announced that Liferay 7.2 Community Beta Program is scheduled to start with the release of 7.2 Alpha 1, which is just around the corner. We know there are some...

David H Nebinger | 2019-feb-20 16:01

Introduction In the earlier days of Liferay, many administrators missed the warning about not using HSQLDB in production. By default, Liferay is configured to use HSQLDB so you can spin up a...

Kyle Joseph Stiemann | 2019-feb-18 15:34

Liferay Faces Roadmap for Liferay Portal 7.2 Support (2019) For Liferay 7.2 support we have three major goals: 1. Support deployment of thin JSF WARs. Liferay Faces has always required that...

Olaf Kock | 2019-feb-08 11:01

The university content team is busy, and you can find a new full course on Liferay University. Upgrading Liferay This course starts at Liferay 6.2 and upgrades it all the way to 7.1. We're using...

Adam Zawel | 2019-feb-05 09:17

Hello Liferay Community Members! From 2007 – 2018, over 30,000 members made over 130,000 comments in the Liferay community forums. As the community discussions have recently moved to a new...

Charles Wu | 2019-feb-05 05:04

If you are a new to liferay 7.x platform since liferay had migrate to OSGi platform, you must have meet the error Unresolved requirement: Import-Package when deploying your bundles, i have a easy...

Jamie Sammons | 2019-feb-01 23:47

The main purpose of this release is give you a sneak peak of what’s coming in 7.2 and to get an early start on testing our packaging process. It is by no means feature complete and hasn’t been...

William Gosse | 2019-jan-30 17:01

I just completed a project that integrated Liferay 7.0 GA7 with Keycloak 4.8 for both authentication and authorization. For those who are not familar with Keycloak it is an open source access and...

Ashley Yuan | 2019-jan-25 06:28

The new release of Liferay Project SDK and Studio Installers has been made available today. This new package support for Eclipse photon or greater. Download For customers, they can download all of...

Ashley Yuan | 2019-jan-25 06:13

Key Features Watch improvements on gradle liferay workspace Add Target Platform in new liferay workpsace wizard Bug fixes Upgrade From previous 3.x Download updatesite here Go to Help > Install...

Ashley Yuan | 2019-jan-24 08:13

The latest release of Liferay IntelliJ 1.2.1 plugin has been made available today. Head over to this page for downloading. Release Highlights: Wizards Added new module ext wizard Add target...

Vitaliy Koshelenko | 2019-jan-22 08:24

Problem: Running Liferay 7.1 from IDEA in Debug mode throws the following error by default: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/intellij/rt/debugger/agent/CaptureStorage However, Run mode works...

Jamie Sammons | 2019-jan-21 19:42

Overview Find a list of what’s included in the release in the Release Notes Download the release now at: https://www.liferay.com/downloads-community New Features Summary Oracle OpenJDK 11 - GA3...

David H Nebinger | 2019-jan-17 18:21

Introduction For folks that know me, they know one of my favorite soapbox rants is on HTTP and/or Portlet session storage. Recently my friend Kyle Stiemann wrote a blog about Session Storage in...

Koen Olaerts | 2019-jan-16 20:55

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...

David H Nebinger | 2019-jan-16 19:29

Introduction I have helped many companies and organizations install Liferay (5, 6 and now 7/DXP), but often times they will stop there. I mean, once the app servers are up and serving traffic...

Olaf Kock | 2019-jan-15 23:29

It's time for a new announcement for new content on Liferay University. A new year brings new content. Happy new year! Liferay Devops Do you know how to set up a cluster? How to backup (or even...

Kyle Joseph Stiemann | 2019-jan-11 00:57

Before I answer this question, consider: What are you actually trying to accomplish? Are you sure that you need share session data to fulfill your goal? Can you use another (better) method to share...

Sébastien Le Marchand | 2018-dec-17 00:15

Since Liferay 7.1, pages management has been completely redesigned. Now the navigation tree presented to end-users are controlled by the new Navigation Menus rather than the position of pages in...

Jan Verweij | 2018-dec-14 10:35

While trying to give your users the best experience ever you always try to keep things simple. In the past I have filled in many forms and many times with the same data and many times at the same...

Pablo Agulla | 2018-dec-13 16:45

I’m happy to announce the release of the first beta for the new set of Liferay REST APIs. But before going into details, for those of you who might not be aware of this project, I’d like to give...

Andrew Jardine | 2018-dec-12 19:55

Today I experienced a great victory, but the day sure didn't start that way. In the days leading up to OSGI I spent a lot of time reading about it, listening to discussions, etc. I wanted to...

Bryan H Cheung | 2018-dec-11 21:37

Background Last fall we reintroduced the option to use clustering in Liferay 7.0 by compiling a series of modules manually and including them in your project. We received a lot of feedback that...

Andrew Jardine | 2018-dec-11 18:38

What a trip. From the dynamic format of the Unconference, to the Air Guitar competition, the opportunity to speak, and a lens into what's coming in 7.2, it was by far the best event that I have...

Álvaro Saugar | 2018-dec-05 10:16

//The english version of this article can be found here: Unconference 2018. El 6 de Noviembre, día anterior a comenzar la DevCon 2018, tuvo lugar la Unconference de Liferay en Pakhuis de Zwijger....

Olaf Kock | 2018-dec-04 16:41

Have you checked out Liferay University by now? Or even better: Liferay Passport - the all-inclusive version of University? If you did, you might want to come back and check the new content. If you...

Álvaro Saugar | 2018-dec-03 14:51

//La versión española del artículo se puede encontrar aquí: Unconference 2018. Unconference took place on November 6, in Pakhuis de Zwijger, previously at Liferay DevCon in Amsterdam. I've read...

Joshua St. Clair | 2018-nov-26 19:03

So perusing the web, you'll notice there's a couple of resources out there explaining how to override the default favicon in Liferay. Of course, the standard way is to add it to /images folder of...

Renato Cesar Bezerra do Rego | 2018-nov-26 14:23

Well, if you're reading this post, I can say you're interested, and maybe anxious, to find out how to create your own form field and deploy it to Liferay Forms, am I right? Therefore, keep reading...

Minhchau Dang | 2018-nov-22 03:35

Part of content targeting involves scheduled jobs that periodically sweep through several tables in order to remove older data. From a modeling perspective, this is as if content targeting were to...

David H Nebinger | 2018-nov-16 17:55

So we've all seen those @Reference annotations scattered throughout the Liferay code, and it can almost seem like those references are not changeable. In fact, this is not really true at all. The...

David H Nebinger | 2018-nov-16 15:24

Introduction When developing JSP-based portlets for OSGi deployment, and even when doing JSP fragment bundle overrides, it is often necessary to get service references in the JSP pages. But OSGi...

David H Nebinger | 2018-nov-16 05:22

Introduction The official Liferay deployment docs are available here: https://dev.liferay.com/discover/deployment They make it easy for folks new to Liferay to get the system up and running and...

David H Nebinger | 2018-nov-15 22:46

Introduction A client recently was moving off of Google Search Appliance (GSA) on to Liferay and Elasticsearch. One key aspect of GSA that they relied on though, was KeyMatch. What is KeyMatch?...

David H Nebinger | 2018-nov-13 23:28

Introduction So often when discussing how to deal with dependencies, we're often looking for ways to package our third party jars into our custom modules. There's good reason to do this. It ensures...

Michael Adamczyk | 2018-nov-13 10:04

At this years Unconference at DEVCON in Amsterdam, Victor Valle kept a session about changing the look-and-feel of the portal administration. Things like removing the default product menu and...

Dave Truong | 2018-nov-12 19:52

As some of you may have already discovered, 7.1 GA2 was released as a 7zip bundle instead of the typical zip bundle. This probably caused a ton of issues. Even our own Dev Tools are not yet...

Kyle Joseph Stiemann | 2018-nov-05 23:16

Mitigating RichFaces 4.5.17.Final EOL Vulnerabilities If you are using RichFaces, you should be aware that Code White has discovered some remote code execution vulnerabilities in the component...