Blogs

Olaf Kock | Sep 12, 2018 8:25 AM

Did you already book your ticket for Devcon 2018? Early Bird ends in a few hours (14 Sep 2018) and I hear that the Unconference is solidly booked (not yet sold out, but on a good path to be sold...

Emiliano Cicero | Sep 11, 2018 8:29 AM

With Liferay releasing new products such as Analytics Cloud and Commerce we decided to cover the need for charts by providing an open source library. The technology Clay, our main implementation...

Ianire Cobeaga | Sep 10, 2018 8:55 AM

This is the second post explaining the new Web Experience functionalities released in version 7.1 of Liferay Portal. As presented in the previous post, in order to empower business users, it is...

Minhchau Dang | Sep 8, 2018 1:49 AM

A few months ago, in the Community Chat, one of our community members raised the question, "Why does Liferay prefer public pages over private pages?" For example, if you select the "Go to Site"...

David H Nebinger | Sep 7, 2018 5:59 PM

By request, a blog to explain compile vs compileOnly vs compileInclude... First it is important to understand that these are actually names for various configurations used during the build process,...

David H Nebinger | Sep 6, 2018 6:04 PM

Introduction One of the benefits that you get from an enterprise-class JEE application server is a centralized administration console. Rather than needing to manage nodes individually like you...

David H Nebinger | Sep 6, 2018 12:34 AM

From the home office outside of Charleston, South Carolina, here are the top ten reasons to avoid Portlet and HTTP session storage: Number 10 - With sticky sessions, traffic originating from a web...

David H Nebinger | Sep 5, 2018 4:36 PM

The Ugly In one of the first Liferay projects I ever did, I had a need to have some Roles in the environment. They needed to be there so I knew they were available for a custom portlet to assign...

Ashley Yuan | Sep 5, 2018 3:41 AM

Liferay IntelliJ 1.1.1 plugin has been made available today. Head over to this page for downloading. Release Highlights: Watch task decorator improvements Support for Liferay DXP Wildfly and CE...

David H Nebinger | Sep 3, 2018 4:41 PM

Introduction As I spend more time digging around in the bowels of the Liferay source code, I'm always learning new things. Recently I was digging in the Liferay extenders and thought I would share...

Dave Truong | Aug 28, 2018 8:11 PM

One of the initiatives our Quality Assurance Team has taken the past few years, has been to try and automate all their testing. This has resulted in testing all of our compatible environments in a...

Ashley Yuan | Aug 28, 2018 2:21 AM

We are pleased to announce the new release of Liferay Project SDK Installers version 3.3.0 GA1. Download: For customers, they can download all of them on the customer studio download page. ...

David H Nebinger | Aug 25, 2018 1:57 PM

I've been asked a couple of times recently about different aspects of @Modified annotation that I'm not sure have been made clear in the documentation, so I wanted to cover the lifecycle...

David Bougearel | Aug 24, 2018 8:16 AM

Hi everybody, With the version 7.X we have all started to play with OSGi and for some projects it's sometimes hard to have a clean start with the correct build tool; despite the blade sample which...

John Feeney | Aug 20, 2018 2:36 PM

A customer recently asked me how Liferay can help them deliver documents to their users based on user-preferred language. One of the easiest ways to do this is through Liferay’s out-of-the-box web...

David H Nebinger | Aug 19, 2018 8:24 PM

Introduction So many times I have answered the question, "How do I find out what import packages my bundle needs?" with the tired and unsatisfactory response that uses the following process: Build...

Olaf Kock | Aug 16, 2018 7:38 AM

As promised less than a month ago, we're working on more content for Liferay University. Meet your new professors Charles Cohick and Dimple Koticha. The new lessons are Gain Insight Into the...

David H Nebinger | Aug 15, 2018 3:39 PM

A SysAdmin came up to me and said he was having issues starting Liferay DXP 7.0, a bunch of CNFEs were coming up at startup. I found that they were set up to use Wily for monitoring their JVMs, and...

Victor Zorin | Aug 13, 2018 7:26 AM

This is the second part of the "Extending Liferay DXP - User Registration" blog. In this blog we explore the ways of implementing registration process for a portal with multiple sites. Portal...

Alberto Chaparro | Aug 10, 2018 7:38 AM

Hi Liferay Community, Before responding this question I would like to explain what's sharding first: to overcome the horizontal scalability concerns of open source databases at the time (circa...