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Introduction So we have a public repo we've been using to train developers on Liferay, but we're using HSQL. We did this on purpose because we couldn't guarantee that developers would have a common local database with necessary permissions to reset, overwrite, etc. For a lot of reasons, using HSQL made a lot of sense. Except for one - Liferay upgrades. You see,...

A short blog post for today... I haven't apparently been blogging much in the last two months. Except that's not really true. I have 5 blog posts that have been waiting to be published that I can't publish. I've hinted about this already, that I have not been able to add images to my blog posts since an update was applied recently. We have been working with Liferay...

Introduction So Liferay has released Liferay DXP 7.4 2024 Q2 and Liferay CE 2024 GA 120, but along with this came a bunch of other updates that affect developers. These include: Blade 7.0.0 Gradle 8.5 Liferay Workspace Plugin 10.1.x JDK 17/JDK 21 That's a lot of changes, so let's talk about them... Blade 7.0.0 For those that don't know,...

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 GA120: docker run -it -p 8080:8080 liferay/portal:7.4.3.120-ga120 Bundles and other download...

In my last blog, Creating a React Client Extension, I basically built a React-based SPA that was hosted on Liferay. And I got to thinking that we really aren't sharing just how great Liferay is to host Javascript-based SPAs in any framework, be it React, Angular, Vue.js or others. So I thought I'd take some time to share with Javascript developers some reasons why...

Java 8 was released to the world in March 2014. For the last decade, Liferay has been creating tools for users to build crafted, powerful solutions leveraging the Java 8 ecosystem. Even though we have also supported Java 11 runtime for the last 5+ years, our baseline for Portal/DXP’s development has remained on Java 8. However, the industry is moving on from Java 8. Many of the...

Just a short one today... I happened to be researching Object Validations and I saw an interesting note posted here: https://learn.liferay.com/w/dxp/liferay-development/objects/creating-and-managing-objects/validations/adding-field-validations#using-groovy-validations To quote (in case the content gets changed): IMPORTANT As of DXP 2024.Q2/Portal 7.4 GA120,...

So I was starting a new workspace yesterday, issued my normal command: $ blade init projectname Error: The command init is missing required parameters. The following option is required: [-v | --liferay-version] The Liferay product to target. Typing "more" will show all product versions. 1: dxp-2024.q1.6 2: dxp-2023.q4.9 3: portal-7.4-ga112 4: dxp-2023.q3.9 5: dxp-7.3-u36 6:...

Liferay is busy working on updating the Node version used by the Gradle plugins in the Gradle Workspace from Node 16.13.0 (or 16.15.1 depending upon where you look) to Node 20.12.2. I'm told that this update is only supposed to apply to new versions of Liferay greater than GA117 and U117 (which means the upcoming 2024.Q2 release and later). I'm also told that it only...

Introduction I was recently asked whether it is possible to migrate from HCL DX™ to Liferay DXP. I think the expected response was "no", because they seemed shocked when I said it was possible. Let's ride along with Mr. Peabody and Sherman in the Wayback Machine to review some history and understand why migration is possible... Set the Wayback Machine for...

Introduction In my recent blog, Introduction to Liferay Objects, I used Objects and Liferay OOTB facilities to have a list of Course Registrations and UI interfaces for submitting a new Course Registration, listing them, and for admin users the ability to approve or deny them. It worked well, but it didn't handle maybe some expected requirements. For example, the...

Just a quick post today to highlight the Liferay Circles of Success Meetups! It’s a meetup group hosted by my friends and Liferay experts, Andrew Jardine, Chris Mount, JR Houn and Eddie Chow. They have upcoming sessions on migrating to React widgets and Liferay Auditing. I'm sure there will be more future sessions to cover a range of Liferay topics! Join the group...

Introduction So I've been working on my Objects Rule! series and have been working on an app I plan on showing off soon, but I realized that there is probably a gap explaining, well, how do you get started? I mean, it's one thing to go and check the client extensions sample repo here: https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/tree/master/workspaces/liferay-sample-workspace,...

Introduction I recently advocated for the demise of the specialized Liferay IDEs/IDE Plugins. Advocating for them to be decommissioned is one thing, but sharing how you can live without them can be another thing... So I thought I'd blog about how you can use a vanilla, off the shelf version of Eclipse/Intellij along with Blade & Gradle to accomplish similar...

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 parts to be ready before publishing... This will be a living blog post, it will get updates on it as soon as I hear something different, but in the mean time the content that is here is...

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 Ant-based environment with fairly complicated build scripts that was responsible for building the deployable Liferay. And we were building portlets per the portlet...

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 session.timeout.auto.extend.offset=300 As I was writing the blog and flipping back and forth from the post to the browser where I was building stuff, some times I was still being logged out. ...

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 Liferay, specifically Objects for the data store, and Fragments for the presentation (form fragments and collection display fragments and Masterclass fragments). This approach...

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 is an introduction to objects suitable for long-time Liferay users or new Liferay users, so I thought I'd take time to write one (since my blog ideas well seems to be...

DEVCON 2024 is happening! Dates: 11-14 November 11 Nov: Welcome Evening Reception - 7:00 pm - 10:00pm 12 Nov: 9:00am - 5:30pm 13 Nov: 9:00am - 5:30pm, Party Night starting at 7.30pm 14 Nov: Unconference - 9:30am - 5:00pm Venue: Akvarium Klub - Budapest, Hungary Get a chance to come to DEVCON by submitting your proposal! As...