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.

Category
Category
Portlet Level Configuration
Portlet Level Configuration With the configuration framework, you can set your application's configuration for different levels of scope. Where Instance and Site-scoped configurations use...
Dependency Injection
Dependency Injection
Configuration Model Listener Reference
Configuration Model Listener Reference Use model listeners in your own configurations to listen for events and execute code in response. Creating a model listener requires only three steps: ...
Field Options Provider
Field Options Provider You can populate a drop-down list manually in the @Meta.AD annotation of the configuration interface. But you can also populate the option labels and values automatically...
Scoping Configurations
Scoping Configurations In Liferay DXP, you can set an application's configuration to different levels of scope: System, Instance, Site, or Portlet. For example, if you create an application to have...
Traditional Java-Based Development
Traditional Java-Based Development Liferay is a complex open-source platform built on several key technologies and architectural principles. Liferay is written mostly in Java and built on the OSGi...
Using Poshi Resources
Using Poshi Resources Once the Poshi resources jar file is loaded onto your Poshi project, you are now able to use Liferay's commonly used functions, paths, and macros. To distinguish between files...
Core Frameworks
Core Frameworks
Configuration Framework
Configuration Framework Setting and Accessing Configurations Categorizing a Configuration Scoping Configurations Portlet Level Configuration Configuration Form Renderer DDM Form Annotations ...
DDM Form Annotations
DDM Form Annotations The auto-generated configuration interface UI may be too simplistic for some configurations. You can use the Dynamic Data Mapping (DDM) form annotations to customize your...
Listening for Messages
Listening for Messages You can listen for messages sent to any registered Message Bus destination, whether it's built-in to DXP/Portal, defined by third-parties, or created by you. Messages sent to...
Using Asynchronous Messaging
Using Asynchronous Messaging Message Bus's asynchronous option provides fire and forget behavior; send a message and continue processing without waiting for a response. An asynchronous message is...
Message Bus
Message Bus The Message Bus provides a loosely coupled way to exchange messages. A class sending a message invokes the Message Bus to send the message to a destination, while other classes...
Listening for Registration Events
Listening for Registration Events Liferay DXP 2023.Q3/Portal GA92 and Below The messaging API supports listening for destination and message listener registration events. Here are some reasons to...
Tuning Messaging Performance
Tuning Messaging Performance Liferay DXP 2023.Q3/Portal GA92 and Below Messaging performance is tuned at the destinations. Performance depends on the destination type, the amount of processing the...
Logs
Logs The OSGi Log Service Extender enables bundles to provide OSGi logging configuration using embedded properties files META-INF/osgi-logging.properties or META-INF/osgi-logging-ext.properties....
Using Default Synchronous Messaging in Previous Versions
Using Default Synchronous Messaging in Previous Versions Liferay DXP 7.4 U48/Portal GA49 and Below In default synchronous messaging, the sender blocks while a Message Bus thread dispatches the...
Using Direct Synchronous Messaging in Previous Versions
Using Direct Synchronous Messaging in Previous Versions Liferay DXP 7.4 U48/Portal GA49 and Below Direct synchronous messaging is the easiest way to block processing until all listeners receive a...
Portlet Descriptor to OSGi Service Property Map
Portlet Descriptor to OSGi Service Property Map Here's a map of portlet XML descriptor values to OSGi service properties for publishing OSGi Portlets. The properties centralize and simplify portlet...
Data Frameworks
Data Frameworks