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David H Nebinger | Feb 23, 2018 8:35 PM

So the question comes up how to do Liferay upgrades. I'm not talking here about the technical details of how you upgrade one particular plugin to another type of plugin, what kinds of API changes...

Jonas Choi | Feb 23, 2018 6:21 PM

Tomcat 8.5 is an in-between version of Apache Tomcat 8.0 and 9.0. According to the Apache site, it contains some features in 9.0 that have been backported to 8.0. This version of Tomcat is...

David H Nebinger | Feb 21, 2018 4:32 AM

So Jamie just announced the new Liferay 7.1 Community Beta Program here: https://community.liferay.com/news/liferay-7-1-community-beta-program/ I recommend everyone who has working code in Liferay...

Jamie Sammons | Feb 20, 2018 12:12 AM

Welcome to the Liferay 7.1 Community Beta Program! During the Liferay 7.0 development cycle we launched the Community Expedition program. With over 600 participants this was one of our largest...

David H Nebinger | Feb 16, 2018 2:54 AM

Okay, in case it is not yet clear, Liferay 7 uses an OSGi container. I know what you're thinking: "Well, Duh..." The point is that OSGi is actually a standard and anything that works within OSGi...

Christian Klein | Feb 15, 2018 9:52 PM

I have been working on adding CKEditor plugins to the Alloy Editor in Liferay DXP and figured I would share what I found. Specifically I was trying to add the YouTube Plugin. There are some...

Iacopo Colonnelli | Feb 15, 2018 5:58 PM

Introduction In recent times, containers are becoming more and more important in the software lifecycle management, whether we like it or not. The majority of the leading software companies have...

Jose M. Navarro | Feb 14, 2018 10:33 AM

In the very beginning of every mobile app project, we can have to face a tough decision: should I go for a native approach to make the most of the device capabilities and optimize the user...

Sergio González | Feb 13, 2018 11:32 AM

I am very pleased to announce the first release of Adaptive Media available for Liferay 7 GA5 and Liferay DXP. Below you can find the links to download the app from Liferay Marketplace. Download...

David H Nebinger | Feb 8, 2018 8:59 PM

So I've been working a lot more with Angular 2+ recently (Angular 4 actually, but that is not so important) and wanted to share some of my findings for those of you whom are interested... Accessing...

David H Nebinger | Feb 2, 2018 4:01 PM

So, as a developer, I'm like usually whacking my whole runtime environment and starting over. Why? Well, regardless how much I try to keep it clean, cruft will find its way into the environment....

Koen Olaerts | Jan 30, 2018 5:59 PM

On October 6, 2017 my colleague Sebastiaan and I held a presentation at Liferay DevCon about a cool integration the COIN team made. We were looking for a fun and exciting Internet of Things...

Minhchau Dang | Jan 5, 2018 2:23 AM

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 | Dec 20, 2017 9:43 PM

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 | Dec 18, 2017 6:17 PM

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 | Dec 14, 2017 10:14 PM

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 | Dec 7, 2017 10:16 AM

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 | Nov 8, 2017 12:49 AM

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 | Nov 6, 2017 6:09 AM

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 | Nov 3, 2017 3:04 PM

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 | Oct 23, 2017 9:02 PM

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 | Oct 14, 2017 8:42 PM

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 | Oct 10, 2017 4:44 AM

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 | Oct 9, 2017 1:57 PM

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 | Oct 5, 2017 3:07 PM

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 | Oct 5, 2017 3:06 PM

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 | Oct 4, 2017 10:03 AM

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 | Oct 2, 2017 3:29 PM

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 | Oct 2, 2017 10:55 AM

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 | Sep 14, 2017 8:57 PM

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 | Sep 14, 2017 7:02 AM

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 | Sep 8, 2017 1:21 PM

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 | Sep 7, 2017 3:05 AM

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 | Sep 6, 2017 7:32 PM

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 | Aug 18, 2017 3:06 PM

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 | Aug 16, 2017 11:08 AM

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 | Jul 19, 2017 6:44 PM

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 | Jul 14, 2017 2:05 AM

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 | Jul 12, 2017 2:12 PM

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 | Jun 28, 2017 3:12 AM

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...