Application Development

Sometimes Liferay’s out-of-the-box features don’t cover all the functionality you need. When this happens, you can develop your own applications that interface with Liferay and leverage its features.

Here, we’ll continue the story of Delectable Bonsai, a fictional B2B producer of maple syrup products that supplies distributors across the globe. Due to recent growth, Delectable Bonsai needs a custom solution for receiving and approving distributor applications in a B2B context.

This application is deployable on Liferay SaaS, PaaS, and self-hosted environments, and Delectable Bonsai’s partners can use it to apply for and obtain new business accounts.

When finished, you’ll have learned how to

• Use Liferay Objects to define and manage custom data structures that leverage Liferay’s core frameworks, including headless APIs, permissions, and more.
• Use Liferay’s page builder features to design experiences for creating and displaying object entries.
• Use microservice client extensions to provide backend functionality to your solutions.

Start by Modeling Data Structures!