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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.

Feature
Deployment Approach
Enabling Glowroot on PaaS
Official Documentation
Enabling Glowroot on PaaS Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA100+ Glowroot is included with Liferay in the /opt/liferay/glowroot folder. If you're running Liferay in a clustered environment, enable...
Published Date: Aug 10, 2024 3:47 PM
Using Client Extensions
Official Documentation
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Checkout Step Client Extension Reference
Official Documentation
Checkout Step Client Extension Reference Checkout Step Client Extension YAML Reference FieldValueDescription activetrueSpecifies that the checkout step is active....
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Payment Integration Client Extension Reference
Official Documentation
Payment Integration Client Extension Reference Payment Integration Client Extension YAML Reference FieldValueDescription keyliferay-sample-commerce-payment-integrationSpecifies the unique key for...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Shipping Engine Client Extension Reference
Official Documentation
Shipping Engine Client Extension Reference Shipping Engine Client Extension YAML Reference FieldValueDescription keyliferay-sample-commerce-shipping-engineSpecifies the unique key for the shipping...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Using the Checkout Step Client Extension
Official Documentation
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Using the Payment Integration Client Extension
Official Documentation
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Using the Shipping Engine Client Extension
Official Documentation
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
APIs as OSGi Services
Official Documentation
APIs as OSGi Services After you've learned what a module is and how to deploy one, you can use modules to define APIs and implement them. Liferay APIs are OSGi services, defined by Java interfaces...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Fundamentals
Official Documentation
Fundamentals Liferay development projects consist primarily of simple .jar files. These contain a few extra configuration files that make them OSGi modules, but they're easily understandable by...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:48 AM
Architecture
Official Documentation
Architecture The Liferay DXP/Portal architecture has three parts: Core: Bootstraps DXP and its frameworks. The Core provides a runtime environment for managing services, UI components, and...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Deploying WARs (WAB Generator)
Official Documentation
Deploying WARs (WAB Generator) You can create applications as Java EE-style Web Application ARchive (WAR) artifacts or as Java ARchive (JAR) OSGi bundle artifacts. Bean Portlets, PortletMVC4Spring...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Configuring Dependencies
Official Documentation
Configuring Dependencies Liferay provides a container where modules can publish and consume functionality through their Java packages. Modules can leverage packages from other modules or...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Specifying Dependencies
Official Documentation
Specifying Dependencies You must satisfy all dependencies to compile and deploy a module successfully. After you find the dependency artifacts, add them as dependencies in your Gradle build file....
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Exporting Packages
Official Documentation
Exporting Packages In OSGi, packages are private by default. You must explicitly exporting a package so other modules can import and use them. Here's how to export packages: Open your bnd.bnd...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Finding Artifacts
Official Documentation
Finding Artifacts To use external artifacts in your project, you must configure their dependencies in your build.gradle Gradle script. Before specifying an artifact as a dependency, you must first...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Importing Packages
Official Documentation
Importing Packages You often find yourself in a position of needing functionality provided by another module. To access this functionality, you must import packages from other modules into your...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
JARs Excluded from WABs
Official Documentation
JARs Excluded from WABs [Liferay-generated web application bundles (WABs) are stripped of third party JARs that contain packages that Liferay exports already. Deploying the same third party...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Creating Video Shortcut Providers
Official Documentation
Creating Video Shortcut Providers Liferay DXP 7.4+ By default, Liferay's external video shortcuts support YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, and Twitch. However, you can extend this feature to support...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:50 PM
Using the Gogo Shell
Official Documentation
Using the Gogo Shell The Gogo shell provides a way to interact with the module framework. Among other things, you can Dynamically install/uninstall bundles (modules) Examine package...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM