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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.

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Setting Service Access Policies
Setting Service Access Policies Service Access Policies define what services or service methods can be invoked remotely. You can apply many of them at once to produce a combined effect. They are...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
AntiSamy
AntiSamy Liferay DXP includes an AntiSamy module that protects against user-entered malicious code. If your site allows users to post content in message boards, blogs, or other applications, these...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Multi-Factor Authentication Checkers
Multi-Factor Authentication Checkers Liferay DXP 7.4 ships with two additional factor checkers for Multi-Factor Authentication. Both of them are disabled by default, because they're only useful in...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Using Multi-Factor Authentication
Using Multi-Factor Authentication To enhance your installation's security, you should disable less secure, one-factor forms of authentication, such as Basic Auth, Digest Auth, and WebDAV. You can...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Securing Web Services
Securing Web Services Liferay DXP provides four security layers for web services: IP permission layer: The IP address from which a web service invocation request originates must be white-listed in...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Setting Up CORS
Setting Up CORS CORS stands for Cross-Origin Resource Sharing. An Origin is a web server at a different domain, and a Resource is some asset stored on the server, like an image, PDF, or HTML file....
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Using Authentication Verifiers
Using Authentication Verifiers Authentication Verifiers authenticate remote invocations of Liferay Portal's API in a centralized and extensible way. They have two main responsibilities: Verify...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Activating Liferay DXP
Activating Liferay DXP Subscription Required Liferay DXP is activated using an XML (.xml) activation key. It specifies your DXP subscription terms or trial agreement. When you run Liferay DXP for...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Clustering for High Availability
Clustering for High Availability Liferay DXP can scale to serve everything from the smallest to the largest web sites. Out-of-the-box, it's configured optimally for a single server environment. If...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Configuring Cluster Link
Configuring Cluster Link Enabling Cluster Link activates distributed caching. The cache is distributed across multiple Liferay DXP nodes running concurrently. Cluster Link uses Ehcache replication....
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Configuring Unicast over TCP
Configuring Unicast over TCP If your network configuration or the geographical distance between cluster nodes prevents you from using UDP Multicast clustering, you can configure TCP Unicast. You...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Configuring Mail
Configuring Mail Liferay DXP/Portal can be configured to use a mail server to send email notifications for a variety of purposes: User registration and password management, Site membership...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Database Configuration for Cluster Nodes
Database Configuration for Cluster Nodes At minimum, nodes in a DXP cluster must be configured to share the same database (or database cluster) in order to function. Optimizations discussed here...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Example: Creating a Simple DXP Cluster
Example: Creating a Simple DXP Cluster A fast, easy way to learn DXP clustering is to set up a two node DXP cluster environment on one machine using Docker containers. This example creates two DXP...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Alternative Email Configuration Methods
Alternative Email Configuration Methods There are several methods of configuring Liferay DXP to connect to a mail server. The simplest way to get started is to configure mail using through the...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Configuring Microsoft Office 365 with OAuth
Configuring Microsoft Office 365 with OAuth Liferay DXP 7.4 U79+/Liferay Portal 7.4 GA79+ Connect your Microsoft email service to Liferay with the use of OAuth 2.0 authorization. Note, Microsoft...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Upgrading Liferay
Upgrading Liferay Liferay is continuously being enhanced with new features as new versions are released. To access these features in your current project, you must upgrade your Liferay instance to...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Upgrading a Sharded Environment
Upgrading a Sharded Environment Since Liferay DXP 7.0, Liferay removed its own physical partitioning implementation (also known as sharding) in favor of the capabilities provided natively by...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Configuring Default Email Senders
Configuring Default Email Senders By default, emails sent by Liferay DXP use the name and email address as the default admin user. This behavior can be configured for each of the different email...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Initial Instance Localization
Initial Instance Localization Liferay DXP supports localization by language, time zone, and more. The English (US) language translation and GMT time zone are the defaults, but DXP has over 40...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Tuning Liferay
Tuning Liferay There are several ways to tune Liferay's performance. This involves configuring the Java Virtual Machine and frameworks that support the Liferay application, monitoring performance...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Tuning Your JVM
Tuning Your JVM Java Virtual Machine (JVM) tuning primarily focuses on adjusting Java heap and non-heap settings and configuring garbage collection. Finding settings that perform well for you...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Using a CDN
Using a CDN A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a distributed infrastructure for caching static, file-based content. When visitors hit your site, your static content is loaded from the server...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Migrating Configurations and Properties
Migrating Configurations and Properties Your current DXP installation's OSGi configurations (7.0+) and properties (such as portal properties and system properties) set up your DXP instance to fit...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Other Upgrade Scenarios
Other Upgrade Scenarios If you're upgrading a clustered installation, you must follow an upgrade approach that fits your cluster requirements. See Maintaining Clustered Installations to learn the...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Reference
Reference This reference section offers comprehensive resources to guide you through the upgrade process. Learn about key topics like data cleanup, database upgrade options, default setting changes...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Data Removal
Data Removal Available 7.4+ Use the Data Removal tool to erase unnecessary application data, such as expired journal articles and publication previews. To remove data, Open the Global Menu...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Default Setting Changes in 7.2
Default Setting Changes in 7.2 Most new versions of Liferay include changes to the default settings. If you rely on the defaults from your old version, you should review the changes and decide to...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
File Store Updates
File Store Updates File store options and configuration values changed in Liferay DXP 7.0. If you're on 7.0 or earlier and are affected by these changes, you must update your file store before...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Guest Checkout
Guest Checkout You can use guest checkout to submit orders without an account on the site. You can enable guest checkout on a per-channel basis. See Enabling Guest Checkout to learn more. After...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:47 PM
Build Retention Policy
Build Retention Policy The Liferay Cloud console displays your builds on the Builds page, so you can deploy them to your services whenever needed. However, only the most recent 1,100 builds remain...
Published Date: Jan 30, 2025 12:33 PM
Updating Services in Liferay PaaS
Updating Services in Liferay PaaS Liferay PaaS provides a robust framework for achieving a highly efficient Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) strategy. With Git and Jenkins...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Developer Guide
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.
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:50 PM
Portal Properties
Portal Properties Configuration options are specified using Portal Properties, sets of name/value pairs read from properties files and Docker environment variables on server startup. Default values...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Sample API Tutorials
Sample API Tutorials Follow the links below for sample API tutorials that include example requests and example code. Building Applications (Objects) Custom Objects API Basics Custom Objects...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Setting Up Liferay
Setting Up Liferay After installing Liferay, configure it to meet your needs. Here are common setup tasks. Setup Tasks Preconfigure the System Activate Liferay (Subscription Required) ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Batch Engine API Basics - Importing Data
Batch Engine API Basics - Importing Data Liferay's Headless Batch Engine provides REST APIs to import and export data. Call these services to import data to Liferay. Importing Data Then follow...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Notifications API Basics
Notifications API Basics Liferay's headless delivery application provides REST and GraphQL services for subscribing to or unsubscribing from notifications for platform events across several default...
Published Date: Oct 4, 2024 4:10 PM
Developer Guide
Developer Guide
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:59 PM
Products
Products Liferay provides four product types out-of-the-box: Simple, Grouped, Virtual, and Diagram. Catalogs hold products with a default SKU at creation time. By default, all products are visible...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM

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