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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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Defining Entity Relationships
Official Documentation
Defining Entity Relationships Relationships between database entities or Java objects are necessary for most applications. Take Liferay's Message Boards application as an example. Each Message...
Service Builder Basics
Official Documentation
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,...
Understanding and Extending Generated Classes
Official Documentation
Understanding and Extending Generated Classes Service Builder generates both tables for your entity and model, persistence, and service classes for it. Here you'll examine generated classes for an...
Using Upgrade Processes
Official Documentation
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...
Invoking a Service Locally
Official Documentation
Invoking a Service Locally Service Builder services that are deployed to DXP/Portal can be invoked from other classes in the same JVM. These services are local to the classes. Service Builder...
Upgrading Data Schemas
Official Documentation
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
Official Documentation
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...
Invoking Actions with MVC Portlet
Official Documentation
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...
Liferay Faces Portal
Official Documentation
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...
MVC Resource Command
Official Documentation
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...
Using MVC
Official Documentation
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...
CDI Portlet Predefined Beans
Official Documentation
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...
Liferay Faces Alloy
Official Documentation
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...
MVC Render Command
Official Documentation
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...
Liferay Faces Bridge
Official Documentation
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 Action Command
Official Documentation
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...
Portlet Preferences
Official Documentation
Portlet Preferences You can give administrators and users a way to customize a portlet with portlet preferences. Portlet preferences can be added to any MVC Portlet to give users a UI to access and...
Building Forms with AUI Tags
Official Documentation
Building Forms with AUI Tags The AUI tag library provides all the components you need to build forms for your applications. AUI tags provide many benefits to standard form elements, such as custom...
Alloy UI (AUI) Tag Library
Official Documentation
Alloy UI (AUI) Tag Library The AUI tag library provides tags that implement commonly used UI components. These tags make your markup consistent, responsive, and accessible. You can find a list of...
Rendering Views with MVC Portlet
Official Documentation
Rendering Views with MVC Portlet If you want users to access your portlet's views, you must implement navigation to them. Portlet render URLs help you do this. Here you'll deploy an example...