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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 supporting documentation on it. Although I hadn't yet worked with Liferay Batch, I kind of took it as a challenge to not only give it a try, but more importantly to document it in a new blog post, so here...

Downloads: Liferay Portal 7.3 GA8: Patch | Readme All vulnerabilities fixed in these patches have already been fixed in Liferay Portal 7.4 GA5. Please refer to the readme file for a list of issues addressed in each patch. For more information on working with patches, please see Patching Liferay Portal . Thanks to Arun Das and Dominik Marks, binary builds of the patches are available: ...

Liferay stores all the information in a relational SQL database, but most of the entities (Web Content, Documents, Users, Blogs Entries, etc.) are also indexed on the Elasticsearch server. This Elasticsearch server is used by several Liferay functionalities, for example: Liferay search functionality: execute searches by keywords. Asset Publishers: display the contents filtered by some...

Download options Liferay Portal and Liferay Commerce share the same Bundle and Docker image.  To get started using either Liferay Portal or Liferay Commerce, choose the best download option suited for your environment below. Docker image To use Liferay Portal 7.4 GA8: docker run -it -p 8080:8080 liferay/portal:7.4.3.8-ga8 For more information on using the official Liferay docker...

What is two-way ssl communication? In two-ways ssl authentication, Client and server need to validate and authenticate each other's identities. This can be summarized with the picture below. How ever, I will be writing a separate post about SSL and two-way authentication later.         In this post we will talk about calling external API which is two way SSL...

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 (or for other application servers). To set up JNDI resources under 7.4, you'll need to put the necessary JDBC jars into the Tomcat lib directory (or the lib directory of your application server). In...

Beginning in 2020 we adopted a new rolling release strategy providing more frequent Liferay Portal releases which included new features, improvements, and bug fixes.   Although the new release strategy saw huge improvements with introducing new features in a timely fashion, it still led to a period where new features would not be added to the product again for several months. ...

The English version of this article can be found here: Fragments, React and Widgets. Los Fragmentos son simples, son trozos de HTML, CSS y JavaScript que se pueden añadir a una página y fácilmente desarrollados por programadores FrontEnd. Esta fue, más o menos, la primera definición que dimos cuando empezamos el proyecto Modern Site Building. Pero también sabemos que hoy en día esa definición...

Fragments are simple, are just some pieces of HTML, CSS and JavaScript that can be added to a page and easily managed by FrontEnd developers. That was, more or less, the first definition we gave when we started the Modern Site Building project. But we know that today that definition is full of exceptions: fragments also have JSON configuration files, they can be rendered with Freemarker or...

The Liferay Portal 7.4 GA7 release is primarily focused on fixes so no new notable features will be introduced with this release. This release also includes Log4j 2.17.1 to address CVE-2021-44832 Download options Liferay Portal and Liferay Commerce share the same Bundle and Docker image.  To get started using either Liferay Portal or Liferay Commerce, choose the best download option...