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.

Feature
Deployment Approach
Capability
Using a JSP and MVC Portlet
Official Documentation
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
React Component Utilities Reference
Official Documentation
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 ...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:48 AM
PortletMVC4Spring Project Anatomy
Official Documentation
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...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Using React
Official Documentation
Using React Build your own solutions using Liferay and React.
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Using Spring
Official Documentation
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...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Extending Liferay
Official Documentation
Extending Liferay Liferay DXP/Portal is highly customizable. Its modular architecture contains components you can extend and override dynamically using APIs.
Published Date: Jul 18, 2024 8:39 PM
Sharing Localized Messages
Official Documentation
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Aggregating Resource Bundles
Official Documentation
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...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:48 AM
Generating Translations Automatically
Official Documentation
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...
Published Date: Jul 18, 2024 8:39 PM
Customizing Localization
Official Documentation
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...
Published Date: Jul 18, 2024 4:48 PM
Using Liferay Util Buffer
Official Documentation
Using Liferay Util Buffer The buffer tag is not a self-closing tag. The content placed between the opening and closing of this tag is saved to a buffer and its output is assigned to the Java...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Using Liferay Util Param
Official Documentation
Using Liferay Util Param The param tag lets you set a parameter for an included JSP page. This configuration requires two JSPs. JSP A, the main view of the app, includes JSP B and sets its...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Remote Applications with Headless APIs
Official Documentation
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...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
PortletMVC4Spring Configuration Files
Official Documentation
PortletMVC4Spring Configuration Files A PortletMVC4Spring application has these descriptors, Spring contexts, and properties files in its WEB-INF folder: web.xml → Web application descriptor ...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Using Localized Messages in an MVC Portlet
Official Documentation
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...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Reference
Official Documentation
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...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
PortletMVC4Spring Annotations
Official Documentation
PortletMVC4Spring Annotations PortletMVC4Spring provides several annotations for mapping requests to controller classes and controller methods. @RenderMapping Annotation Examples The following...
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
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
Adding a Language
Official Documentation
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...
Published Date: Jul 18, 2024 8:39 PM