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.

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Using the Checkout Step Client Extension
Using the Checkout Step Client Extension Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ You can use a client extension to create a new checkout step. This tutorial uses an example client extension from the...
Checkout Step Client Extension Reference
Checkout Step Client Extension Reference Checkout Step Client Extension YAML Reference FieldValueDescription activetrueSpecifies that the checkout step is active....
Using the Shipping Engine Client Extension
Using the Shipping Engine Client Extension Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ You can use a client extension to add a new shipping engine to Liferay. This client extension from the sample...
Payment Integration Client Extension Reference
Payment Integration Client Extension Reference Payment Integration Client Extension YAML Reference FieldValueDescription keyliferay-sample-commerce-payment-integrationSpecifies the unique key for...
Shipping Engine Client Extension Reference
Shipping Engine Client Extension Reference Shipping Engine Client Extension YAML Reference FieldValueDescription keyliferay-sample-commerce-shipping-engineSpecifies the unique key for the shipping...
Using Client Extensions
Using Client Extensions Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ Using client extensions, you can extend Liferay without using OSGi modules. Deploy them to any Liferay environment, whether you host it...
Using the Payment Integration Client Extension
Using the Payment Integration Client Extension Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ You can use a client extension to integrate with a new payment method in Liferay. This client extension from the...
Liferay Faces Bridge
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...
Using MVC
Using MVC If you're an experienced developer, this is not the first time you've heard about Model View Controller. If there are so many implementations of MVC frameworks in Java, why did Liferay...
MVC Action Command
MVC Action Command MVC Action Commands handle actions as separate classes. With Action Commands, you can organize action logic in MVCPortlets that have many actions. Action URLs in the portlet's...
Liferay Faces Alloy
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 Portal
Liferay Faces Portal Liferay Faces Portal is distributed in a .jar file. You can add Liferay Faces Portal as a dependency for your portlet projects to use its Liferay-specific utilities and UI...
Liferay Faces Version Scheme
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...
Invoking Actions with MVC Portlet
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 Render Command
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...
Generating Model, Persistence, and Service Code
Generating Model, Persistence, and Service Code Service Builder makes it easy to define models and generate model, persistence, and service code for them. You'll experience this by defining a model...
Upgrading Data Schemas
Upgrading Data Schemas When you upgrade Liferay, you might run into incompatibility issues with your custom modules' data schemas. There are three ways you can resolve these issues: You can run...
Using Upgrade Processes in Earlier Versions
Using Upgrade Processes in Earlier Versions Liferay DXP 7.4 U10/Portal 7.4 GA14 and Below Follow these steps to create an upgrade process for your module: Open your module's bnd.bnd file, and...
Sorting Entity Instances
Sorting Entity Instances Often, you want to retrieve multiple instances of a given entity and list them in a particular order. The service.xml file lets you specify the default order of your...
Service Builder Basics
Service Builder Basics Using Service Builder helps you learn it. You'll use it to learn the basics: Generating Model, Persistence, and Service Code: Define a basic model, generate code from it,...