Capability

Development and Tooling

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.

Feature
Deployment Approach
Adding a Language
Adding a Language Liferay ships with over 50 languages out-of-the-box. Translation is complete for many of these languages, and some are still in the translation process. Each language has its own...
Published Date: Jul 18, 2024 8:39 PM
Generating Translations Automatically
Generating Translations Automatically Liferay DXP supports 50 languages out-of-the-box. Each locale has its own language properties file containing keys for its language. When you create an...
Published Date: Jul 18, 2024 8:39 PM
App Builder
App Builder Available: Liferay CE/DXP 7.3 (deprecated and removed in 7.4) App Builder is a low-code application development solution for Liferay DXP. Build a data model, define the application's...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Creating a Workflow Powered Application
Creating a Workflow Powered Application Subscribers Workflow Powered Applications require data from multiple stakeholders. These process-driven applications can go through multiple stages before...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Creating a Standard Application
Creating a Standard Application To create applications based on a custom object takes four steps: create the object, create at least one form view, create at least one table view, and deploy the...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Contributing to Liferay Development
Contributing to Liferay Development The first thing to do in learning to fix bugs or contributing a feature is to become familiar with how to build the system. The Liferay Portal build system now...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Developing Glowroot Plugins
Developing Glowroot Plugins Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA100+ Glowroot provides various out-of-the-box plugins. You can also build your own with the use of their plugin API. Here are some tips...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Troubleshooting Liferay Performance Issues with Glowroot
Troubleshooting Liferay Performance Issues with Glowroot Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA100+ Use Glowroot to identify and diagnose performance issues in your Liferay installation. The following...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Using Glowroot with Liferay
Using Glowroot with Liferay Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA100+ Liferay bundles Glowroot, the open source Java application monitoring tool. The tool displays helpful statistics about your system...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Liferay Performance Use Cases with Glowroot
Liferay Performance Use Cases with Glowroot Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA100+ Use Glowroot to diagnose and inform you on making performance improvements to your Liferay installation. Here are a...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Troubleshooting JVM Issues with Glowroot
Troubleshooting JVM Issues with Glowroot Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA100+ Glowroot displays a dashboard for identifying system issues quickly. Click the Errors tab to see a list of tracked...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Using the Script Engine
Using the Script Engine Liferay provides a robust script engine for executing Groovy scripts. You can execute scripts to perform maintenance tasks involving data cleanup, user maintenance...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Troubleshooting Templates with Glowroot Freemarker Plugin
Troubleshooting Templates with Glowroot Freemarker Plugin Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA100+ Glowroot can troubleshoot FreeMarker templates to pinpoint slow transactions. Configuring the...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Invoking Liferay Services From Scripts
Invoking Liferay Services From Scripts Many scripting scenarios require invoking Liferay services. Liferay *ServiceUtil classes are the fastest and most convenient way to invoke Liferay services in...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Script Examples
Script Examples Here are some examples to help you use scripts in DXP. Most of the examples originated from the Liferay blog post 5 Tips to Improve Usage of the Liferay Script Console. Example 1:...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Running Scripts From the Script Console
Running Scripts From the Script Console The Script Console provides a single view for executing Groovy scripts and printing their output. It has predefined variables that facilitate working with...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Portal Developer Properties
Portal Developer Properties There are Portal Properties that facilitate development. Liferay's portal-developer.properties file includes all of them. The portal-developer.properties file is enabled...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
7.2 Breaking Changes
7.2 Breaking Changes This document presents a chronological list of changes that break existing functionality, APIs, or contracts with third party Liferay developers or users. We try our best to...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
7.3 Breaking Changes
7.3 Breaking Changes This document presents a chronological list of changes that break existing functionality, APIs, or contracts with third party Liferay developers or users. We try our best to...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
7.4 Breaking Changes
7.4 Breaking Changes Breaking changes break or significantly alter existing functionality or code structure. Here are all of the breaking changes for Liferay 7.4, starting with the latest quarterly...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM