Blogs

David H Nebinger | 2024-3-22 下午3:47

History of the Liferay IDEs I first started developing for Liferay version 4.2.3. Back then, we used what was called the "extension environment" to handle Liferay customization. This was an...

David H Nebinger | 2024-3-19 下午3:42

I have to start with an apology. I'm publishing this blog early because parts are ready to go now but some parts are not yet ready. I felt it was too important to hold off waiting for the final...

David H Nebinger | 2024-3-18 下午6:55

Hey, so in my blog last week, I indicated that I had the following in my portal-ext.properties file: session.timeout=15 session.timeout.auto.extend=true session.timeout.warning=0...

David H Nebinger | 2024-3-18 下午1:53

Introduction In a recent blog, Intro to Liferay Objects, I created a new application for the Masterclass site for submitting and approving course registrations entirely using OOTB features of...

David H Nebinger | 2024-3-15 下午7:44

Introduction Wow, I've blogged about Liferay Objects a lot lately. Talked about them too. Also am working on developing materials for learn.liferay.com about Objects. But one thing I haven't seen...

David H Nebinger | 2024-3-14 下午7:15

Liferay released Liferay DXP 2024.Q1 this week, and in the corresponding release notes, you'll find the following nugget. Just search for "Java JDK 11 Runtime" to find in the notes, but here's the...

David H Nebinger | 2024-3-12 下午6:44

In case you missed it, Liferay has announced the deprecation of Websphere for Liferay DXP 7.4. The official announcement was made here: https://support.liferay.com/release-notes/2023-q4, scroll...

David H Nebinger | 2024-2-29 下午8:37

Introduction I was recently in a meeting reviewing some FreeMarker templates that were extracting web contents using a structure, parsing and processing the data, and rendering an output. Basically...

David H Nebinger | 2024-2-29 下午5:01

So this has come up a couple of times recently, so after some research I thought I'd share the news. In 7.4, built-in support for ClamAV has been removed, and Liferay has no current plans on...

David H Nebinger | 2024-2-8 下午2:44

Introduction Recently my friend and coworker Andrew Jardine and I were together in Rome for a Liferay Partner event where we were part of a round table discussion about all things Liferay. Even...

Daniel Dias | 2024-2-5 下午2:51

Introduction GitLab is a web-based DevOps lifecycle tool that provides a Git repository manager, continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD), and a range of collaboration and project...

Wes Kempa | 2024-1-23 下午7:20

What an exciting time to be working in the technology field! We have so many great tools available to us that can benefit everyone. Generative AI (GenAI) is a perfect example of an amazing set of...

Tibor Lipusz | 2023-12-14 上午10:43

Features Multiple Reindex Modes: Full Reindex, Concurrent Reindex (Blue/Green), and Sync Reindex. High Availability: Continuous service during reindexing operations with select modes. System...

David H Nebinger | 2023-12-7 下午8:59

Introduction This post originated from a couple of different client questions... First was a seemingly simple question from a client: How do I use Service Builder to connect to an external database...

David H Nebinger | 2023-12-4 下午6:32

Introduction So I was recently working with a team that was completing an upgrade assessment for a client wanting to upgrade from 7.2 to 7.4. A big chunk of the work in upgrading the client was...

David H Nebinger | 2023-11-29 下午6:08

So just a quick one today about an issue that I helped a coworker with. A client had reported that after they restarted Liferay, they had to redeploy their custom module that had a replacement...

Sahil Akhtar | 2023-11-22 下午12:23

Introduction  This code extends the capabilities of Liferay, a powerful platform for web applications, by enhancing its functionality to seamlessly integrate with Excel files. Specifically, it...

David H Nebinger | 2023-11-10 下午5:26

Introduction So I kind of have a "famous" blog post on Liferay Scheduled Tasks: https://liferay.dev/blogs/-/blogs/liferay-7-ce-liferay-dxp-scheduled-tasks. I say "famous" because it has been used...

David H Nebinger | 2023-11-7 下午5:28

Introduction In today's Office Hours session, the first question out of the gate was "If I'm using OpenID Connect for SSO, how can I synchronize UserGroup membership?". And, well, I just didn't...

Iván Zaera Avellón | 2023-10-20 上午9:03

This article explains how to deploy npm packages bundled with webpack that export and import stuff through the standard ECMAScript modules feature. This is a sequel of the Moving from AMD to...

David H Nebinger | 2023-9-29 上午2:48

Introduction Recently I was pulled into a client project that was created for Liferay 7.4 and they needed to share content, structures, templates, documents, etc with multiple sites. Then I found...

David H Nebinger | 2023-9-27 下午2:01

Introduction So recently I was helping a client eliminate some FreeMarker from their site. As many who have read my blogs, I'm a quick one to call out "FreeMarker Abuse!" when I find that folks are...

David H Nebinger | 2023-9-20 下午3:24

Introduction So recently I wrote the blog, Gradle 7 is here! Yay? where I showed how to update your workspace to Gradle 7.3.3, and I just kind of stopped there. I mean, I kind of assumed that as...

David H Nebinger | 2023-8-31 下午4:23

Introduction It started with a simple Liferay Community Slack post by Pierre Beule: Hello, I am using pretty standard Liferay stuff to generate a Liferay configuration (let's say a GROUP scoped...

David H Nebinger | 2023-8-30 下午4:38

Just a quick post today about the new Blade 5.0 release... It's out now, and you can update your local Blade using the blade update command. This new release supports JDK 11.0.20+ (so you don't...

David H Nebinger | 2023-8-15 下午7:51

Introduction So for some time now, Liferay builds have been stuck on Gradle 6. Which, you know, is 2 releases behind the currently available Gradle 8... But, after a lot of work, Liferay is ready...

Iván Zaera Avellón | 2023-8-11 上午10:12

This article explains how to leverage the new ECMAScript modules feature (from now on will be referred to as ESM), Custom Element and Import Map Entry client extensions in Liferay DXP to achieve...

Bhargav R Vaghasiya | 2023-8-10 上午9:14

Problem: Using custom fields for custom entities? However, the Liferay control panel does not provide a way to determine how many custom fields there are for custom entities.   Solution: Just add a...

David H Nebinger | 2023-8-8 下午8:04

Introduction So if you really want to set off a firestorm with geeks like myself, step into the group and say "VI is better than Emacs!" Be sure to turn and walk away quickly or you might find...

Tibor Lipusz | 2023-8-2 上午9:59

What is a Collection Provider? Collection providers group items into collections for display on your pages. Several are available out-of-the-box, or you can create them using the Information...

David H Nebinger | 2023-7-25 下午2:16

NOTE: Please read to the end of the blog, there are important updates that affect developers, don't just stop at the conclusion... Introduction So, the various flavors of Java have just released...

David H Nebinger | 2023-7-12 下午6:04

Introduction Recently I've been helping folks on the community slack and forums who have faced a common issue. At startup, they reach an exception, java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to get...

Tibor Lipusz | 2023-6-20 上午9:34

Starting with Liferay Portal 7.4 CE GA81 and Liferay DXP 7.4 Update 81, on-premise deployments can operate with Elasticsearch 8 as the search engine. This capability is provided by leveraging the...

Tibor Lipusz | 2023-5-23 下午2:21

As AI has become paramount recently and Liferay DEVCON 2023 is about to get started, it is exciting to highlight this recent release and to promote the feature from development to beta phase. Since...

Olaf Kock | 2023-4-12 下午1:29

Since Liferay introduced Stylebooks, the Best Practice for your installation has changed, to no longer deploy your own theme, but rather use a stylebook and change it to adhere to your Corporate...

David H Nebinger | 2023-4-6 下午6:25

Introduction So I'm going to be putting together a series of blogs on new things that are available in Liferay 7.4, but I realized after starting a blog on Objects that I need to take a step back...

Olaf Kock | 2023-3-30 上午9:19

If you've ever repeatedly gone through a checklist, with programming knowledge: How often did you have to repeat the steps until you automated them? Or, without programming knowledge: How often did...

David H Nebinger | 2023-3-29 下午4:01

Another short one today, this one is due to something shared with me by my good friend Olaf Kock... It starts with a question - do you like waffles? Or, more specifically, do you like the Liferay...

Chirag Lakhamani | 2023-3-24 下午4:28

Liferay DXP 7.4 supports integration with Azure Blob Storage for storing and managing files in the cloud. This integration allows users to take advantages of the scalability and durability of Azure...

Bhargav R Vaghasiya | 2023-3-24 上午6:09

Liferay Objects can generate service layers by simply declaring schema in the Liferay control panel. Liferay makes the Object's content accessible via headless APIs as well. On Notifications with...

Bhargav R Vaghasiya | 2023-3-14 下午12:09

Low code and no code development are handy for developing a website without a technical background. Liferay came with the Object concept, which is able to generate the persistence and service...

David H Nebinger | 2023-3-13 下午5:16

Another quick one today... So when you start your brand spanking new Liferay environment, you will automatically get your test@liferay.com administrator account (or test@<your company email here>...

David H Nebinger | 2023-3-10 下午5:47

So just a quick blog post today... I was working with Support where they were trying to help a client that had a failed U64 bundle upgrade in Production and we were trying to understand what the...

Neil Harwani | 2023-2-22 上午9:25

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....

David H Nebinger | 2023-2-6 下午3:26

Introduction Recently there have been a bunch of questions lately in Slack, in Ask, and even in Liferay Support tickets complaining about the time it takes to log into Liferay and what can be done...

David H Nebinger | 2022-7-27 上午12:24

Introduction You may have seen my blog Setting Up JNDI in Liferay 7.4 which I posted to explain how to do a JNDI lookup. The code works, I assure you, but there's one group of developers that blog...

David H Nebinger | 2022-7-22 下午2:59

Introduction I've been working with a client to upgrade their Spring portlet wars to Liferay 7.4. And the update is kind of big as we're upgrading Spring, changing to PortletMVC4Spring (needed for...

Maharajan Paramasivan | 2022-4-27 下午1:25

Part-1 | What & Why & When Custom Liferay Framework Create your own Liferay Framework, Understand the possibilities to write your own Liferay framework for any complex custom developed solution...

Mohammed Yasin | 2022-4-21 上午9:19

Liferay provides an option to configure password policy (refer), it provides an option to mention Password Expiry Time. Once the Password is expired then user will not be able to login to the...

Michael Chen | 2022-4-7 下午5:11

Many UI teams prefer building Liferay DXP Theme using gulp instead of the Liferay Theme Builder. For example, cd themes/my-themenpm installgulp build However, Liferay has not documented ways to...

David H Nebinger | 2022-3-24 下午3:15

Introduction So my friend Thiago Moreira posted the following (slightly edited) message to our internal Slack: Hey, so I've built a module for 7.4 GA5, but when it is deployed to 7.4 GA16, I get a...

Maharajan Paramasivan | 2022-3-9 上午5:18

Part-2 | How to Custom Liferay Framework? Implement your own Custom Liferay Framework over a simple use case and understand the possibilities and capabilities that open up. Continuing on top of the...

David H Nebinger | 2022-2-25 下午3:34

Just a quick one today... In previous versions of Liferay, if you were browsing a site as a guest but wanted to access a private page or a private site, Liferay would automagically show you the...

David H Nebinger | 2022-2-14 下午8:29

Introduction Recently I was asked how to implement MDC and/or NDC in Liferay 7.4, and since I thought it might be interesting to a wider audience, I'm going to blog about it here. Background In a...

David H Nebinger | 2022-2-11 下午7:14

Introduction In November of 2018, I authored a blog, Boosting Search. In that blog, I showed how to boost search results for tag matches in an effort to provide some alternative to GSA's KeyMatch...

David H Nebinger | 2022-2-7 下午3:50

Introduction I've worked with clients that, for one reason or another, needed to change their database platform. This ask has increased with the move to DXPCloud and MySQL database. I'm not sure...

David H Nebinger | 2022-1-26 上午12:02

Introduction I was recently polling my coworkers looking for new blog ideas, and Filipe Melo asked about Websockets. I haven't seen any other documentation or blogs about building Websocket...

David H Nebinger | 2022-1-21 下午7:08

Hey, so a quick post today about how to set up JNDI connections in Liferay CE 7.4 or Liferay DXP 7.4. Liferay moved jars around in 7.4. No longer are there key jars in the Tomcat lib/ext directory...

David H Nebinger | 2022-1-13 下午5:55

Introduction My friend and coworker Eric Chin recently posed a question on our internal slack channels asking if anyone had experience with Liferay's Batch mode and he was not finding enough...

David H Nebinger | 2022-1-11 下午6:57

Introduction So recently I completed a database upgrade from Liferay EE 6.1 up to Liferay DXP 7.4. It was actually pretty straightforward and I didn't encounter any significant blockers. I did...