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Liferay offers a comprehensive toolkit to extend or customize your digital experience. Build applications quickly with low-code/no-code features like Objects, or leverage developer tools like Liferay Workspace and Blade CLI for further customizations.

For users on PaaS or running Self-Hosted, Liferay also offers tools deploying customizations.

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Data Frameworks
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Data Frameworks
Accessing Custom Fields With Expandos
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Accessing Custom Fields With Expandos When you need additional fields in your application, you can always add them in your service model definition and re-run Service Builder. This adds new columns...
Cache
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Cache
Service Builder
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Service Builder An application without reliable business logic or persistence isn't much of an application at all. Unfortunately, writing your own persistence code often takes a great deal of time....
Configuring service.properties
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Configuring service.properties Service Builder generates a service.properties file in your *-service module's src/main/resources folder. Liferay uses this file's properties to alter your service's...
Business Logic with Service Builder
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Business Logic with Service Builder Once you've generated model, persistence, and service code with Service Builder, you can begin adding business logic. Entities generated by Service Builder...
Modifying Database Fields in Development
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Modifying Database Fields in Development As you develop an application, you might need to add fields to your database. This is a normal process of iterative development: you get an idea for a new...
Using JSF
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Using JSF Liferay Faces is an umbrella project that provides support for the JavaServer[™] Faces (JSF) standard in Liferay DXP/Portal. Here are the Liferay Faces topics: Introduction to Liferay...
Reference
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Reference
Reference
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Reference
Using Upgrade Processes
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Using Upgrade Processes Liferay DXP 7.4 U10+/Portal 7.4 GA14+ An upgrade of your application may require making changes to your database tables. Liferay's upgrade framework makes it easy to make...
CDI Portlet Predefined Beans
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CDI Portlet Predefined Beans Liferay DXP provides injectable portlet artifacts for CDI called Portlet Predefined Beans, as specified by JSR 362. There are two types of predefined beans: Portlet...
Using Bean Portlet
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Using Bean Portlet Portlet 3.0, the JSR 362 standard, features a style of portlet development called Bean Portlets that use Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI). Bean Portlets fully leverage all...
Developing a Web Application
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Developing a Web Application
Liferay Faces Alloy
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Liferay Faces Alloy Liferay Faces Alloy is distributed in a .jar file. You can add Liferay Faces Alloy as a dependency to your portlet projects, to use AlloyUI in a way that is consistent with JSF...
Liferay Faces Version Scheme
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Liferay Faces Version Scheme In this article, you'll learn which Liferay Faces artifacts should be used with your portlet and explore the Liferay Faces versioning scheme by discovering what each...
Liferay Faces Bridge
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Liferay Faces Bridge Liferay Faces Bridge enables you to deploy JSF web apps as portlets without writing portlet-specific code. It also contains innovative features that make it possible to...
MVC Render Command
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MVC Render Command MVC Render Commands are classes that handle which page to render. They are invoked by MVCPortlet render URLs and requests. If your render logic is simple you can implement all of...
Invoking Actions with MVC Portlet
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Invoking Actions with MVC Portlet A portlet's Action phase applies state changes. You can bind your portlet's action-handling methods to UI components using portlet action URLs. They are...
MVC Resource Command
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MVC Resource Command MVC Resource Command classes retrieve resources: images, XML, or any other kind of resource from a DXP/Portal instance without triggering any actions or renders. Requests or...