Neil Harwani

Following up with Part 1 of the series here: Liferay best practices – Part 1 | LinkedIn – Here is part 2 of Liferay best practices: Look out for settings of ORA-1795 error and it’s required settings from Liferay Help Center articles if you are using Oracle If you have heavy usage of web articles, assets, documents and so on, consider switching off view / increment count ...

Here is a list of what you should not be doing in Liferay – Part 1 and also what you should be doing written right next to it in place of the wrong things: Write JDBC calls in portlets. Avoid JDBC calls in portlets. Please explore expando, service builder, dynamic queries and such from Liferay. Run elasticsearch & database in embedded mode in production....

Below are the main points to work on for a performance tuning engagement in Liferay - Part 1. Firstly, we need to find out what is slow: Database, service calls, elastic search, memory is an issue, threads are blocked / waiting, how much memory is a module taking, logs are printing what, etc. Check your configurations as per this post: How to debug...

Here is a list of points which will help in taking a knowledge transfer for a Liferay engagement - Part 1: 1. Check which products of Liferay are in use: DXP, Commerce, Analytics and / or Cloud LXC 2. Take the list of osgi/configs & osgi/modules to get configurations of osgi modules and such 3. Check portal-ext.properties and portal-setup-wizard.properties  4....

Find below a checklist for Liferay’s DMS (Document Management System) Use Case:  Size your document average size, range of size, number of documents, type, viewers, thumbnail requirements early Decide the workflow templates for start plus growth per quarter & estimated workflow instances per day / week / month in advance which will...

Below are the important notes & links for configuring Liferay DXP with Elasticsearch. Configuring Elasticsearch – Liferay Help Center – DXP 7.0 Installing Elasticsearch – Liferay Learn – DXP latest Securing Elasticsearch 6.5 with X-Pack – Liferay Help Center – DXP 7.0 with ES 6.5 Securing Elasticsearch – Liferay Learn – DXP...

Single ready reference of important links for customers & partners of Liferay: Where is the customer portal: https://www.liferay.com/customers Where do I find the documentation – Version & Product wise: https://learn.liferay.com/ Where is the developer portal: https://www.liferay.com/developers Where is the partner portal: https://www.liferay.com/partners Where...

Here are some links on important technical concepts of Liferay – Part 1. Hope this is helpful to all using and learning Liferay. Clustering: Liferay DXP Clustering – Liferay Help Center Upgrade: Upgrade Basics — Liferay Learn LXC: Liferay Experience Cloud – Liferay Help Center Search: Search Overview — Liferay Learn Architecture: Introduction to...

Keywords in the identity & access management space along with single sign on: Active Directory LDAP OAuth Kerberos OpenID SAML CAS Seamless login Shibboleth IAM SSO JWT Identity provider Service provider MFA TFA Principal Identity synchronization Identity lifecycle management Entitlement Authorization Authentication Federated identity B2B...

Searching these keywords on Liferay will keep you updated on what’s happening in the ecosystem. Add “Liferay” in-front of these keywords & search the same. It’s a mix of technical & functional / product feature topics. This is Part-1 of the series. Module loader MVC portlet Logging Upgrade Patch tool Search filter Hot fixes Service packs Search experiences ...

Developers and managers both struggle at times to pre-plan usage of best practices in projects causing many problems which are best avoided. Providing below some learnings & best practices on using and working with Liferay – Part 1. Don’t work directly on the Liferay database. Use the groovy script console in CONTROL PANEL or the Liferay User Interface. Use the...

An unbiased view on why you should adopt a platform like Liferay and what are the benefits in using Liferay: Having implementations in various domains like insurance, manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, education, government, intranets, commerce, energy, customer / partner portals and more Open standards based system built with and around Java &...

Notes on Liferay search optimization – Part 1. There are two parts to search optimization in Liferay. One is the internal search and other is the SEO / Digital Marketing for content. Below, I am sharing concepts and keywords to explore for both areas. Liferay internal search: Search BluePrints Search Insights Custom Indexers Tags & Categories ReIndexing ...

Some learnings below from various Liferay upgrades that I have been part of: Upgrades need us to plan various dry runs in advance on non-production environment Divide your upgrade between core / database and non-core upgrade Core includes Liferay engine, configurations and database Non-core includes themes, custom code, integrations and such Understand how to use...

How to debug Liferay? Some pointers. – Part 1. Many a times, we only check at specific places and forget other areas while debugging. This small blog acts as a checklist to check and debug Liferay. Look at installing and using GLOWROOT Check the slow traces / web transactions / errors and the related graphs in GLOWROOT Check the logging levels module wise and overall Check...