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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 IDE 3.1 GA 1 You can update or install the new release of Liferay IDE using either of the following links as usual: ...

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. Next blog post will be back to Vue.js, however... Introduction I love love love Maven repositories. I can distribute a small project w/o all of the dependencies included and trust...

There might be cases when you want to write your own CAS (Custom authentication Service) for authenticating users in Liferay. There are many cases like : authenticating users based on different database, different column. One scenerio is where we want to have a single text box with username, where we need either user enters screen name or email address along with other text box for...

Wouldn't it be nice to take pictures with my mobile phone and let Liferay categorize /  organise these pictures for me?   Imagine how powerful it would be if I am on a business trip and I take lots pictures with my phone (pictures of the places I see to show them to my friends, pictures of food so that I can show my mom that I'm eating well, and my receipts so...

I am pleased to announce the immediate release of Liferay Portal 7.0 CE GA4!  Download Now! Update 6/28/2017:  Ext Plugins - We thought we had a bug in CE GA4 affecting deployment to Tomcat and upon further investigation we found out that is not the case.  So Ext Plugins are in fact back in GA4.  Documentation for using...

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 that trend here in part 2, but in this part we're going to tackle some of the important parts that we'll need in our JS portlets to fit them into Liferay. Passing Portlet Instance...

Introduction In Liferay 7 CE / Liferay DXP, there are new facilities in place to help us create JS portlets. In this blog series I'm going to present a new project to demonstrate how to build Vue.js portlets. Vue.js is a lightweight JS framework similar to React or Angular or ... I'm actually picking Vue.js for this series not so much because I think it is better than the...

According to Liferay: Digital Experience Platform (DXP) is an emerging category of enterprise software seeking to meet the needs of companies undergoing digital transformation, with the ultimate goal of providing better customer experiences. The focus here is the customer experience.  Better experiences, regardless of whether they come to you from a...

Just a quick blog today... When you start up LR 7 CE/LR DXP, you'll often see it stop while trying to validate LPKGs. This is a security measure which is used to verify that the LPKG files have not been tampered with. In development, though, this delay is just painful. Fortunately it can be disabled. Add the following line to portal-ext.properties: ...

If you're a Java Architect or Senior Developer, you know just how important the Java access modifiers are. Each choice about what to make public, protected, private or package protected is important from an architectural perspective. If you make the wrong choices you can expose too much of your implementation or not enough, you can give subclasses unlimited ability to change...

So a question came up today how to access the current user as part of a REST method body. My friend, Andre Fabbro, was trying to build out the following application: @ApplicationPath("/myapp") @Component(immediate = true, service = Application.class) public class MyApplication extends Application { @GET @Path("/whoami") @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON) ...

Installations:  Need to download and install the following for a workspace : Eclipse Neon with IDE - 3.1.0 Liferay Plugins ce sdk 7.0- ga3 Liferay Portal ce 7.0-ga3(tomcat) Now configure workspace and start the server. Creating Liferay 7 Theme using Gradle : To create a theme Go to File  > New > Liferay Module project and give...

So if you've started developing for Liferay 7 CE / Liferay DXP, I'm sure you've been hit at one point or another with the old "unresolved reference" issue that prevents your bundle from starting. You would have seen it by now, the Gogo shell where you list the beans and find your bean there stuck in the Installed state. You try starting it and Gogo tells you about the unresolved...

Today I’m writing to announce several new and exciting initiatives within the Liferay Community.  We consider this to be the starting point for a completely revamped community experience. We also have other changes in the works and can’t wait to share the details of what we have been working on. Read on for more details and let us know what you think.   ...

Originally published on Liferay Community site Today we're announcing a new place for the Liferay Community! This is something we've been waiting for a long time and we're super excited to finally show it to you. " Wait, what? Yet another website? " Uhh ... well ... yes! But it all makes perfect sense! Please, let me explain. The evolution...

Originally Published on the Liferay Community site   We have exciting news about a brand new way you can connect with others in the Liferay Community.   Right now, you have two platforms to share your thoughts and get your questions answered by other community members. Blogs: A great place for...

Originally published on Liferay Community Liferay evolved from being a single-product company to a much broader organization. Most of the code we write every day is open source and we continue to launch new projects. As these projects are getting bigger, the communities behind them are gaining momentum as well. Therefore, we needed people that would not only hear, but...

What's Damascus? Damascus generates scaffoldings of *-service, *-api and *-web bundles with CRUD functionality and integrating other Liferay related functionality based on a configuration, base.json.   Code https://github.com/yasuflatland-lf/damascus   Wiki ...

The one thing I never understood was why the UI behind the /api/jsonws is publicly viewable. I mean, there's lots of arguments for it to be secured: Exposing all of your web service APIs exposes attack vectors to hackers. Security by obscurity is often one of the best and easiest form of security that you can have1. Just because users may have permission to do...

Every now and then, there comes a time in a CMS developer's life when the sin of taking default settings for granted takes its toll.    There. I phrased that carefully so it would make a list of quotable quotes some day. Now, let me get to it.   Like many developers out there, I am a huge fan of content-driven...