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.

Check these articles for an introduction:

Feature
Deployment Approach
Capability
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
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 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
Command Line Gogo Shell
Official Documentation
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...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
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: ...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
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...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Gogo Shell Commands
Official Documentation
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...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 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
Developing Glowroot Plugins
Official Documentation
Developing Glowroot Plugins Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA100+ Glowroot provides various out-of-the-box plugins. You can also build your own with the use of their plugin API. Here are some tips...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Troubleshooting JVM Issues with Glowroot
Official Documentation
Troubleshooting JVM Issues with Glowroot Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA100+ Glowroot displays a dashboard for identifying system issues quickly. Click the Errors tab to see a list of tracked...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Using Glowroot with Liferay
Official Documentation
Using Glowroot with Liferay Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA100+ Liferay bundles Glowroot, the open source Java application monitoring tool. The tool displays helpful statistics about your system...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Liferay Performance Use Cases with Glowroot
Official Documentation
Liferay Performance Use Cases with Glowroot Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA100+ Use Glowroot to diagnose and inform you on making performance improvements to your Liferay installation. Here are a...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Troubleshooting Liferay Performance Issues with Glowroot
Official Documentation
Troubleshooting Liferay Performance Issues with Glowroot Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA100+ Use Glowroot to identify and diagnose performance issues in your Liferay installation. The following...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Troubleshooting Templates with Glowroot Freemarker Plugin
Official Documentation
Troubleshooting Templates with Glowroot Freemarker Plugin Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA100+ Glowroot can troubleshoot FreeMarker templates to pinpoint slow transactions. Configuring the...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Using the Script Engine
Official Documentation
Using the Script Engine Liferay provides a robust script engine for executing Groovy scripts. You can execute scripts to perform maintenance tasks involving data cleanup, user maintenance...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Invoking Liferay Services From Scripts
Official Documentation
Invoking Liferay Services From Scripts Many scripting scenarios require invoking Liferay services. Liferay *ServiceUtil classes are the fastest and most convenient way to invoke Liferay services in...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Running Scripts From the Script Console
Official Documentation
Running Scripts From the Script Console The Script Console provides a single view for executing Groovy scripts and printing their output. It has predefined variables that facilitate working with...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Script Examples
Official Documentation
Script Examples Here are some examples to help you use scripts in DXP. Most of the examples originated from the Liferay blog post 5 Tips to Improve Usage of the Liferay Script Console. Example 1:...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Portal Developer Properties
Official Documentation
Portal Developer Properties There are Portal Properties that facilitate development. Liferay's portal-developer.properties file includes all of them. The portal-developer.properties file is enabled...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
User Management APIs
Official Documentation
User Management APIs You can use headless APIs to interface with important Liferay user management features, including user accounts, organizations, and roles. Here are resources to help you...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM