Are Headless CMS and Content-as-a-Service for you?
You may have heard the buzz recently about Headless CMS and Content-as-a-Service, and wondered…
Creating JAX-RS REST Services in Liferay DXP
One of the exciting new features in Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) 7 is its built-in support for creating and deploying JAX-RS based REST services. Among other things this can enable the rapid development of modern web applications in Liferay DXP using...
Rock-Solid Liferay Plugin Deployments
This blog post describes the overall process recommended by Xtivia for deploying custom Liferay plugin applications to Liferay. Note that while this document is primarily targeted at the deployment of custom Liferay plugins, many of the concepts do apply to...
The Business Case for Managing Liferay with Chef
Chef is a powerful automation platform that transforms complex infrastructure into code, bringing your servers and services to life. Whether you’re operating in the cloud, on-premises, or a hybrid, Chef automates how applications are configured, deployed, and...
Tuning Basic JVM Performance for Liferay DXP 7
Over the nearly 10 years that we have worked with the Liferay platform, we have had ample opportunity to hone our understanding of how Liferay interacts with the Java virtual machine (JVM), and how to optimally tune the JVM performance for Liferay as a Java...
Handling Transactions Across Multiple Liferay API Calls
There are times when you want to handle multiple Liferay API calls as a single, atomic transaction. For example, let’s say you have a business process that has the following 3 steps: Create an Organization. Add a Role to the User. Update the User’s...
Warning: Custom Code Rendering Liferay Web Content Might Not Be Cached
If you have custom code for rendering Liferay web content, you may not know it but you may not be leveraging Liferay caching for the rendered web content, and this may be at the root of some performance problems in your Liferay environment. Recently, one of our...
How to Enable HTTPS on Apache in CentOS
Many of our customers host SugarCRM on Apache on CentOS. We strongly recommend enabling HTTPS in any production environment and I’d like to share the steps to enable this. In this blog we would be using a signed SSL certificate not a self-signed one but in...
Create a Zoomable Image Portlet for Liferay
This blog shows you how to create a portlet to be able to zoom in and out of an image. This portlet is web content driven using Liferay 6.2, jquery and animate.css. I have included all the source code for this project at the bottom of this page. How it Looks: When you...