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Aggregating Resource Bundles
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Aggregating Resource Bundles When working with a module that shares localized messages, the bnd header must specify the resource bundles you want to associate with the module. Liferay provides a...
React Component Utilities Reference
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React Component Utilities Reference Several useful tools are available to help you build high-performance components and applications in Liferay DXP using React: frontend-js-react-web module ...
Using Spring
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Using Spring PortletMVC4Spring is a way to develop portlets using the Spring Framework and the Model View Controller (MVC) pattern. While the Spring Framework supports developing servlet-based web...
Using React
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Using React Build your own solutions using Liferay and React.
PortletMVC4Spring Configuration Files
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PortletMVC4Spring Configuration Files A PortletMVC4Spring application has these descriptors, Spring contexts, and properties files in its WEB-INF folder: web.xml → Web application descriptor ...
Using a JSP and MVC Portlet
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Using a JSP and MVC Portlet An easy way to start developing a web application is to add markup to a JSP file and render it using a portlet Java class. The W3E7 example application demonstrates...
Sharing Localized Messages
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Sharing Localized Messages As you work on an application you might have multiple modules, each of which with its own language keys. Instead of maintaining various language properties files in...
Remote Applications with Headless APIs
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Remote Applications with Headless APIs Available 7.4+ After creating and publishing objects, headless REST APIs are automatically generated. Here you'll see how to integrate these endpoints to...
PortletMVC4Spring Annotations
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PortletMVC4Spring Annotations PortletMVC4Spring provides several annotations for mapping requests to controller classes and controller methods. @RenderMapping Annotation Examples The following...
Using Localized Messages in an MVC Portlet
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Using Localized Messages in an MVC Portlet Liferay's localization framework is for creating localized messages in your MVC portlet. Deploy the Sample Code Then, follow these steps: Download...
Reference
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Reference PortletMVC4Spring integrates Spring, the Spring Web Framework, and the MVC design pattern with portlet development. As such, it uses configuration files from each of these areas and...
PortletMVC4Spring Project Anatomy
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PortletMVC4Spring Project Anatomy PortletMVC4Spring portlets are packaged in WARs. Liferay provides Maven archetypes for creating projects configured to use JSP/JSPX and Thymeleaf templates. Their...
Creating Service Wrappers
Creating Service Wrappers With Service Wrappers, you can override default service methods to add extra functionality. For example, you may want the value of a field you've added to Liferay's User...
Generating Translations Automatically
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Generating Translations Automatically Liferay DXP supports 50 languages out-of-the-box. Each locale has its own language properties file containing keys for its language. When you create an...
Overriding Module Language Translations
Overriding Module Language Translations For Liferay DXP 7.4 U4/Portal 7.4 GA8+, the Language Override tool is the recommended approach. Overriding language translations in specific applications...
Creating a Model Listener
Creating a Model Listener Model listeners listen for persistence method calls that signal changes to a specified model (such as update or add methods). Most of the methods model listeners use are...
Customizing JSPs with Dynamic Includes
Customizing JSPs with Dynamic Includes The liferay-util:dynamic-include tag is a placeholder into which you can inject content---JavaScript code, HTML, and more. The example project demonstrates...
Adding a Language
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Adding a Language Liferay ships with over 50 languages out-of-the-box. Translation is complete for many of these languages, and some are still in the translation process. Each language has its own...
Overriding Global Language Translations with Language Properties
Overriding Global Language Translations with Language Properties Liferay DXP/Portal implements headings, labels, and messages for many locales using language translations. You can override these...
Customizing Localization
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Customizing Localization Liferay ships with 55 translations, making it ideal for deployments all over the world. Sometimes, however, you must modify a translation or provide a new one. Here you can...
Overriding JSPs
Overriding JSPs You can override JSPs completely using OSGi fragments. This approach is powerful but can make things unstable when the host module is upgraded. By overriding an entire JSP, you...
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...
Using Portlet Filters
Using Portlet Filters Portlet filters intercept requests and responses at the start of each portlet request processing phase so you can add functionality there. This makes them useful for auditing...
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...
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...
Using Servlet Filters
Using Servlet Filters Servlet filters can both pre-process requests as they arrive and post-process responses before they go to the client browser. You can apply functionality to requests and...
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...
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,...
APIs as OSGi Services
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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...
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...
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...
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...
UI Architecture
UI Architecture
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
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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...
Exported Third Party Packages
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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...
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...
JARs Excluded from WABs
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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...
Specifying Dependencies
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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....
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...
Importing Packages
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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...
Using an OSGi Service
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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: ...
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...
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...
Semantic Versioning
Official Documentation
Semantic Versioning Semantic Versioning is a three tiered versioning system for incrementing version numbers based on the degree of API change made in a releasable software component. It's a...
Command Line Gogo Shell
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Command Line Gogo Shell If you're in a development environment, you can interact with the module framework locally from the command line. Gogo shell should only be run from the command line in...
Gogo Shell Commands
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Gogo Shell Commands The Gogo shell executes Felix Gogo basic commands and Liferay commands. The Gogo shell is accessible in the Control Panel (recommended) and from the command line. Here are some...
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...
Adaptive Media Modules Reference
Official Documentation
Adaptive Media Modules Reference Adaptive Media's Modules Some modules in the Adaptive Media app are mandatory and must be enabled for Adaptive Media to function, while others can be disabled. The...
Digital Asset Management
Official Documentation
Digital Asset Management Use Liferay’s Digital Asset Management (DAM) features to store, organize, and reuse documents, images, and other media across your site. The Documents and Media library...
DevOps
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DevOps :::: 2 :gutter: 3 3 3 3 ::: Local Integrations Configuring Documents and Media Previews Enabling Antivirus Scanning for Uploaded Files Configuring Cache Control for Documents and Media...
Configuring Documents and Media Previews
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Configuring Documents and Media Previews Liferay 7.4 U84+/GA84+ By default, Liferay uses PDFBox to generate previews for files added to the document library. This is because PDFBox is the only...
Configuring Caching for Documents and Media
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Configuring Caching for Documents and Media Liferay 7.3 U23+, Liferay 7.4 U21+, GA21+ By default, Documents and Media files are not cached by browsers or servers. This is because file visibility...
Developer Guide
Official Documentation
Developer Guide This guide provides comprehensive information and references to help you effectively use the Document API, understand adaptive media modules, and create video shortcut providers.
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...
Enabling Document Creation and Editing with Microsoft Office 365
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Enabling Document Creation and Editing with Microsoft Office 365 Liferay DXP integrates with Microsoft Office 365™ so you can create and edit documents, spreadsheets, and presentations stored in...
Enabling FFmpeg for Audio and Video Previews
Official Documentation
Enabling FFmpeg for Audio and Video Previews Documents and Media provides integration with the FFmpeg multimedia framework for generating audio and video file previews. To use this integration, you...
Google Drive Integration
Official Documentation
Google Drive Integration Integrate Google Drive with Liferay DXP to create, edit, and manage Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides directly from Documents and Media. This integration provides two main...
Enabling Links to Google Drive Documents
Official Documentation
Enabling Links to Google Drive Documents Liferay supports Google Drive in Documents and Media. When enabled, you can create shortcuts to your Google Drive files that enable you to view and manage...
Creating SharePoint Repositories in Documents and Media
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Creating SharePoint Repositories in Documents and Media Once you've added a SharePoint OAuth2 configuration, you can use it to create repositories in Documents and Media that are mounted to...