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Fundamentals
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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...
Overriding OSGi Services
Overriding OSGi Services Liferay's OSGi container is a dynamic environment in which services can be added, removed, or overridden as needed. This framework registers Liferay components with the...
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...
Bundle Classloading Flow
Bundle Classloading Flow The OSGi container searches several places for imported classes. It's important to know where it looks and in what order. Liferay DXP's classloading flow for OSGi bundles...
Architecture
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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...
The Benefits of Modularity
The Benefits of Modularity Dictionary.com defines modularity as the use of individually distinct functional units, as in assembling an electronic or mechanical system. The distinct functional units...
Deploying WARs (WAB Generator)
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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...
Liferay Classloader Hierarchy
Liferay Classloader Hierarchy All Liferay DXP/Portal applications live in an OSGi container. DXP/Portal is a web application deployed on your application server. Its Module Framework bundles...
OSGi and Modularity
OSGi and Modularity Modularity makes writing software, especially as a team, fun! Here are some benefits to modular development on Liferay: Liferay's runtime framework is lightweight, fast, and...
Finding Artifacts
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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...
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...
Module Life Cycle
Module Life Cycle In OSGi, all components, Java classes, resources, and descriptors are deployed via modules (OSGi bundles). The MANIFEST.MF file describes the module's physical characteristics,...
Resolving Third Party Library Package Dependencies
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Resolving Third Party Library Package Dependencies An application can rely on multiple OSGi modules. Resolving their Java package dependencies can be challenging. In a perfect world, every package...
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....
Exporting Packages
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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...
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...
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...
Exported Third Party Packages
Official Documentation
Exported Third Party Packages Liferay provides over one-hundred third party Java packages at run time. The com.liferay.portal.bootstrap module exports the packages by specifying individual packages...
Module Projects
Official Documentation
Module Projects Liferay applications and customizations are OSGi modules: .jar files containing Java code and some extra configuration for publishing and consuming APIs. A module project comprises...
Using an OSGi Service
Official Documentation
Using an OSGi Service Liferay APIs are readily available as OSGi services. You can access a service by creating a field of that service type and annotating the field with @Reference, like this: ...