Blogs

This is the second post explaining the new Web Experience functionalities released in version 7.1 of Liferay Portal.  As presented in the previous post, in order to empower business users, it is necessary to have Page Fragment collections available.   But, what are they and what is their use?   Page Fragments are “reusable page parts” created by web...

A few months ago, in the Community Chat, one of our community members raised the question, "Why does Liferay prefer public pages over private pages?" For example, if you select the "Go to Site" option, if there are both private pages and public pages, Liferay sends you to the public pages. Unfortunately, I don't have an answer to that question. However, through some experimentation,...

By request, a blog to explain compile vs compileOnly vs compileInclude... First it is important to understand that these are actually names for various configurations used during the build process, but specifically when it comes to the dependency management. In Maven, these are implemented as scopes. Each time one of these three types are listed in your dependencies {} section, you are adding...

Introduction One of the benefits that you get from an enterprise-class JEE application server is a centralized administration console. Rather than needing to manage nodes individually like you would with Tomcat, the JEE admin console can work on the whole cluster at one time. But, with Liferay 7 CE and Liferay 7 DXP and the deployment of OSGi bundle jars, portlet/theme wars...

From the home office outside of Charleston, South Carolina, here are the top ten reasons to avoid Portlet and HTTP session storage: Number 10 - With sticky sessions, traffic originating from a web address will be sent to the same node, even if other nodes in the cluster have more capacity. You lose some of the advantages of a cluster because you cannot direct traffic to nodes with...

The Ugly In one of the first Liferay projects I ever did, I had a need to have some Roles in the environment. They needed to be there so I knew they were available for a custom portlet to assign when necessary. I was working for an organization that had a structured Software Configuration Management process that was well defined and well enforced. So code deployments were a...

  Liferay IntelliJ 1.1.1 plugin has been made available today. Head over to this page for downloading.   Release Highlights:   Watch task decorator improvements Support for Liferay DXP Wildfly and CE Wildfly 7.0 and 7.1 Better integration for Liferay Workspace Improved Editoring Support Code completion for resource bundle...

Introduction As I spend more time digging around in the bowels of the Liferay source code, I'm always learning new things. Recently I was digging in the Liferay extenders and thought I would share some of what I found. Extender Pattern So what is this Extender pattern anyway? Maybe you've heard about it related to Liferay's WAB extender or Spring extender or Xyz extender,...

One of the initiatives our Quality Assurance Team has taken the past few years, has been to try and automate all their testing. This has resulted in testing all of our compatible environments in a similar fashion.  Thus, we no longer need to distinguish between Supported and Certified environments.   Starting with Liferay DXP 7.0, we will now list all our compatible...

We are pleased to announce the new release of Liferay Project SDK Installers version 3.3.0 GA1.   Download:   For customers, they can download all of them on the customer studio download page.   Upgrade From previous 3.2:   Download updatesite here Go to Help > Install New Software… > Add… Select Archive...Browse to...

I've been asked a couple of times recently about different aspects of @Modified annotation that I'm not sure have been made clear in the documentation, so I wanted to cover the lifecycle annotations in a little further detail so we can use them effectively. The @Activate, @Deactivate and @Modified annotations are used for lifecycle event notifications for the DS components. They get...

Hi everybody, With the version 7.X we have all started to play with OSGi and for some projects it's sometimes hard to have a clean start with the correct build tool; despite the blade sample which are definitely useful. I wanted to share through this blog, a sample with an OSGi service and a portlet which are configured to be deployed in a Liferay 7.1. The code given can be...

A customer recently asked me how Liferay can help them deliver documents to their users based on user-preferred language. One of the easiest ways to do this is through Liferay’s out-of-the-box web content localisation feature. In this  blog entry, I will show how this can be easily implemented.   1. The first step is to create a Web Content structure with fields for our...

Introduction So many times I have answered the question, "How do I find out what import packages my bundle needs?" with the tired and unsatisfactory response that uses the following process: Build your module. Deploy your module. Use Gogo to see why your bundle doesn't start, often from an Unresolved Requirement on an Import Package. Either ...

As promised less than a month ago, we're working on more content for Liferay University. Meet your new professors Charles Cohick and Dimple Koticha. The new lessons are Gain Insight Into the Customer Journey - Liferay Analytics Cloud Fully Customize Your Search Experience As with all lessons on Liferay University, they're completely free and available...

A SysAdmin came up to me and said he was having issues starting Liferay DXP 7.0, a bunch of CNFEs were coming up at startup. I found that they were set up to use Wily for monitoring their JVMs, and it was those classes that were generating CNFEs. In general, when you add the -Djavaagent=XXX parameter onto your app server's startup command, you're enabling an agent which will...

This is the second part of the "Extending Liferay DXP - User Registration" blog. In this blog we explore the ways of implementing registration process for a portal with multiple sites.  Portal Sites Configuration Let’s presume we have a portal with the following sites configured: "Liferay", default site, will not be listed "Site 1", site with open...

Hi Liferay Community, Before responding this question I would like to explain what's sharding first: to overcome the horizontal scalability concerns of open source databases at the time (circa 2008), Liferay implemented physical partitioning support.  The solution allowed administrators to configure portal instances to be stored in different database instances and database...

I am starting a short series of blogs in which I will show how to customise User Registration / Customer Acquisition process in Liferay. The inspiration for this blog is one of our DXP portal implementations which had very broad (and frequently changing) user data collection requirements. There are many scenarios in which you want to customise user registration and...

In Liferay Portal 7.1 a lot of effort has been put in improving the experience of building sites and pages and, as a result, some new functionalities have been introduced to empower marketers and other business users in the creation of stunning websites. We have achieved this by considering differentiated needs for the marketer, designer and web developer; and adding a new approach...