Blogs

Jamie Sammons | Aug 15, 2016 6:37 PM

I am pleased to announce the release of: Liferay Portal 7.0 CE GA3! [Download Now] What's New Overriding LPKG Files: A while back I wrote a blog entry on patching OSGi modules. The original...

Javeed Chida | Aug 13, 2016 10:30 PM

The Glorious Simplicity of Structure Inheritance This field (highlighted yellow) on a structure editing screen is what I am talking about. When I first saw the words Parent Structure there, the...

Marcos Castro | Aug 5, 2016 11:23 AM

Hi everyone! For a long time themes have been one of the most required features in Liferay, and as we announced during last year, Liferay 7 will be a game changer. This will be the first out of...

Olaf Kock | Aug 5, 2016 10:17 AM

Liferay comes with so many features that it's hard to judge when a feature is a good solution for a given problem. I'd like to shine some light onto some of these features and common misconceptions...

David H Nebinger | Aug 5, 2016 1:22 AM

Introduction In part 1, the filesystem access portlet project for Liferay 7 was introduced. In this part, we're going to use Blade and Gradle to set up our basic project structure. We're not going...

David H Nebinger | Aug 5, 2016 12:27 AM

Introduction So I've been doing some LR7 development recently. It's an exciting and challenging platform to get your head around and I thought I would just work up an example portlet, spread it...

Melanie Chung | Aug 4, 2016 9:36 PM

It’s never too early to plan your next meal–or your next, next, next meal for that matter. While it may seem like Liferay Symposium North America is a while away, it’ll be here before you know it....

Angela Wu | Aug 4, 2016 8:19 PM

Last month, I attended BizBash LA for the second time (you can see my 2015 recap here). I had a great time hearing from industry leaders and meeting fellow event professionals. It’s one of the few...

priti parmar | Aug 2, 2016 10:57 AM

Liferay Arquillian test cases using maven and spring Arquillian integrates seamlessly with familiar testing frameworks (e.g., JUnit, TestNG), allowing tests to be launched using existing IDE, Ant...

Melanie Chung | Jul 25, 2016 11:03 PM

Every 30 seconds, someone becomes a victim of human trafficking. It’s a sad reality, and here are some common myths and misconceptions about this crime: “Human trafficking victims always come from...

Patrick Chung | Jul 25, 2016 9:55 PM

For my very first EVP trip, my family and I had to opportunity to shadow the day-to-day operations of Solidarity Brasil and ABBA. These organizations share many of the same core values as Liferay...

Bryan H Cheung | Jul 18, 2016 11:11 PM

Today I’m writing to announce that we are discontinuing support for Liferay Connected Services and Audience Targeting for Liferay Portal 7 Community. The main factor behind the decision was the...

Jamie Sammons | Jul 14, 2016 7:43 PM

I wanted to share some testing that I have been doing in terms of patching OSGi modules and adding the patched modules to your own Liferay installations. One of the many benefits to modularity is...

David H Nebinger | Jul 14, 2016 3:51 AM

So I'm a long-time supporter of ServiceBuilder. I saw its purpose way back on Liferay 4 and 5 and have championed it in the forums and here in my blog. With the release of Liferay 7,...

Maarten van Heiningen | Jul 13, 2016 8:26 PM

This blog is part of a series of entries on Mobile First with Liferay Screens. [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] Mobile First with Liferay Screens Mobile has changed the world and will go on doing...

David H Nebinger | Jul 7, 2016 3:55 AM

It's going to happen. At some point in your LR7 development, you're going to build a module which has runtime dependencies. How do you satisfy those dependencies though? In this brief blog entry...

Neil Griffin | Jul 6, 2016 7:45 PM

UPDATE: September 2, 2016 - Visit www.liferayfaces.org for a convenient web page that helps you determine your archetype:generate command and/or required dependencies. The Liferay Faces team is...

Dave Truong | Jul 6, 2016 12:30 AM

There's been some confusion over state of Maven support for Liferay. As the Product Manager for Developer Tools, I feel responsible for the confusion and felt the need to clear up any questions....

Koen Olaerts | Jun 30, 2016 8:32 PM

So you want to search for your custom JPA entities in Liferay? Quite some documentation is already available but it is somewhat scattered over several blogposts and articles. With this blogpost I...

Javeed Chida | Jun 29, 2016 6:14 AM

I came across the idea of a generic template recently, and put it to good use. If you don't know what I mean by generic template, let me clear that up right away. A generic template is really...