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Welcome to the Liferay 7.1 Community Beta Program!     During the Liferay 7.0 development cycle we launched the Community Expedition program.  With over 600 participants this was one of our largest and most successful community programs to date.  It is in large thanks to our awesome community who was...

So the question comes up how to do Liferay upgrades. I'm not talking here about the technical details of how you upgrade one particular plugin to another type of plugin, what kinds of API changes have to be made, etc. Instead, I'm thinking more about the general process of how to upgrade, what choices you're presented with and what the ramifications are for making certain...

Tomcat 8.5 is an in-between version of Apache Tomcat 8.0 and 9.0. According to the Apache site, it contains some features in 9.0 that have been backported to 8.0. This version of Tomcat is currently in the "Supported" matrix of the Liferay DXP Compatibility Matrix, and of course, the question is: How do I set up Liferay CE/DE 7.0 with Tomcat 8.5? The short answer is: Exactly like...

So Jamie just announced the new Liferay 7.1 Community Beta Program here: https://community.liferay.com/news/liferay-7-1-community-beta-program/ I recommend everyone who has working code in Liferay 7.0 or Liferay DXP should join the 7.1 beta sooner rather than later. Why? Well, mostly because Liferay's engineering team is focused on the 7.1 release, so anything that you...

Introduction In recent times, containers are becoming more and more important in the software lifecycle management, whether we like it or not. The majority of  the leading software companies have already released a Docker version of their products, Microsoft did a huge work to adapt Windows kernel to Docker containers features, many Cloud services sell container-based...

Okay, in case it is not yet clear, Liferay 7 uses an OSGi container. I know what you're thinking: "Well, Duh..." The point is that OSGi is actually a standard and anything that works within OSGi will work within Liferay. You just need to understand the specs to make something of it. For example, I'd like to talk about OSGi Fragment Bundles. There's actually stuff in the...

I have been working on adding CKEditor plugins to the Alloy Editor in Liferay DXP and figured I would share what I found. Specifically I was trying to add the YouTube Plugin. There are some articles online at Liferay but they focus more on packaged or custom developed plugins. I got close streaming the files into the Dynamic-Include, but there is a better way (thanks to...

In the very beginning of every mobile app project, we can have to face a tough decision: should I go for a native approach to make the most of the device capabilities and optimize the user experience, or should I prefer a hybrid development to make progress faster even though the result may be not as good. And you have to choose either one or the other. A few...

I am very pleased to announce the first release of Adaptive Media available for Liferay 7 GA5 and Liferay DXP. Below you can find the links to download the app from Liferay Marketplace. Download Adaptive Media DXP Download Adaptive Media CE What is Adaptive Media? In case you are unfamiliar to Adaptive Media and you want to know more about how this powerful app can...

So I've been working a lot more with Angular 2+ recently (Angular 4 actually, but that is not so important) and wanted to share some of my findings for those of you whom are interested... Accessing the Liferay Javascript Object So TypeScript is sensitive to defined variables, classes, objects, etc.  Which is good when you want to make sure you are building complex apps,...

So, as a developer, I'm like usually whacking my whole runtime environment and starting over. Why? Well, regardless how much I try to keep it clean, cruft will find its way into the environment. I'm left with users I don't want, content I don't want, pages I'm not using any more, sites created to demo something I'm not demoing any more... So I'll throw out my data directory,...

On October 6, 2017 my colleague Sebastiaan and I held a presentation at Liferay DevCon about a cool integration the COIN team made. We were looking for a fun and exciting Internet of Things integration in Liferay. After a fruitful brainstorm, we decided to use Philips Hue. Another couple of brainstorms later, we formed the actual idea. The setup was to create an imaginary...

Welcome to the fourth entry in a series about what to keep in mind when building Liferay from source. First, to recap the previous entries in this series from last year: Getting Started with Building Liferay from Source: How to get a clone of the Liferay central repository and how to build Liferay from source. Also some tools that can help you setup your IDE (whether it's...

Short explanation If you want to convert a third party library of your portlets (modules) into a Bundle OSGi to be used by all modules, you could create a new module with your third party library and dependences and be used by your modules. To explain this we will use JasperReport third party library. Supose that you have a module that uses JasperReport to generate PDF files....

The Liferay ecosystem is richer than ever, and our community members have never been as global. Each one of us has different interests and with all this diversity, it gets hard to understand the people behind our community. This is where this survey comes in: we asked 28 questions, covering topics going from favorite projects all the way to events and user groups. In total we had 393...

This year, the Knowledge Management team at Liferay set out not only to document Liferay 7/DXP, but to document it well. To do this, we identified several improvements we wanted to make: We wanted to connect powerfully with users and customers. To do this, we made a significant effort toward documenting the right things, the things people needed the most to learn about. We...

Yay, it took a while to get onto it again, and finally I updated Custom Navigation and it just went through the approval process yesterday. Now it's available for Liferay 7 and DXP as well. What does it do? If you've wondered why Liferay defaults to showing only the public pages, or only the private pages in the navigation, never both together, this plugin is for you. Now...

2017 was a great year for the Liferay Community. Many things were accomplished and we know that there are still many things to be improved. We created a new website where you can discover and stay up to date with new projects. We launched a new chat where you can talk with 600 other community members. We started to revamp user groups all over the world. And with your help, we...

We just released latest version of blade cli that includes all of the new npm frontend project templates. This also bumps the rest of the project templates to use latest versions of Liferay gradle and Liferay workspace plugins. To update simply do $ blade update or for those that haven't installed blade yet, follow the guide here: ...

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of: Liferay Portal 7.0 CE GA5! [Download Now] What's New Blacklisting OSGI Modules: New in GA5 is the ability to blacklist modules from starting. For more info see the official documentation.   Clustering Returns: We recently announced the return of clustering to Liferay Portal CE. Liferay Portal 7...