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Configuring an SSL certificate in Liferay is just a few steps process. In this post, you will learn how to generate your self-signed certificate and configure it with Liferay.

Introduction: In this post, we will learn how to create a self-signed certificate and configure it with Liferay Portal. Here are the key points of the entire process. Create Keystore Export Certificate Import certificate into JDK Update portal-ext.properties Update server.xml InfoThe entire process is tested on Liferay 7.4. However, overall steps will remain the same for other versions of…

History Of Liferay Portal

Around 2000, a very young software developer named Brian Chan volunteered to create a website for his church. He wanted to make it dynamic and fully featured as well as easy to update for end users. During the first few years of Liferay’s existence, there was no company behind it. It was a small open-source project that was slowly gaining a community. Soon it became popular and the community…

Add Custom Language Capability To Liferay

Introduction Liferay supports out-of-the-box around 50 languages. It’s also possible to add our own language. This post is about how you can customize the Liferay portal to add your own language support. After the customization, you will be able to see your language in the Liferay Control Panel settings. Overall Steps: First, identify the ISO 639-1 Code language code Then identify the ISO…

Liferay 7/Liferay DXP Screen Name Validator

Screen Name in Liferay is very important which is unique in the Portal. While creating user the Screen Name is mandatory field and Screen Name represents the actual user in the portal. Sometimes its necessary to validate the screen name entered by the user at the time of creation of users. In this article we will explain how to write Custom Screen Name Validator in the form of OSGI Module. We…

Configurable Portlet In Liferay 7 / Liferay DXP

We can make our portlet configurable at runtime. Portlet Preferences are the key points of configurable portlet.In Liferay 7 or Liferay DXP the process of making configurable portlet is different from Liferay 6.2. In this article we will discuss portlet configuration on Liferay 7. We will create a sample portlet before enabling the portlet configuration.

Use Case:

Consider that we want to…

Liferay 7/Liferay DXP theme development by Maven

The theme development approach drastically changed in Liferay 7 (DXP). In liferay 6.2 we could easily develop child theme from existing parent theme like classic theme. However its not straight forward in liferay DXP. Along with liferay 7 it has introduced various tool and technologies like node, npm, OSGI, blade CLI etc.  Theme development in liferay 7 may be cumbersome for those developers…

Context Contributor Concept in Liferay 7/DXP

Context Contributor simply provides contextual information to template files like Velocity or Free Marker Template. Templates are widely used in Application Display Template (ADT), Web Content Display Portlet and Liferay Theme. Using Context Contributor we can write piece of code to inject contextual information which can be reused in various template files. In this article we will explain the…

Understanding Angularjs scope $rootScope and $scope

In Angularjs Scope is simply a JavaScripe object . Scope is the glue between Angularjs controller and view. The scope holds all the model data required for the view to be displayed. In Angularjs the scope is hierarchical in nature. In this article we will explain the various aspects of Angularjs scopes.

Whats scope in Angularjs:

Angularjs scope is JavaScripe object which holds properties and…

Spring MVC CRUD Operations using Angularjs

Angularjs can be easily used with Spring MVC. In this article we will explain how Spring MVC and Angularjs can be used together. All the CRUD operations of spring controller will be exposed as rest web service. From Angularjs controller we can easily invoke rest services to create, read, update and delete the data.

Preparing Spring Rest Controller:

All the operations for database are written…

Consume OSGI Service in Liferay Portlet

We can easily Consume OSGI Service in Liferay Portlet. Before reading this article please read my previous article. This article is an extension of the previous article. In this article we will create a Sample Portlet and consume the OSGI Service which is explained in the previous article.

Read my previous article

http://proliferay.com/writing-your-first-osgi-service-in-liferay-7/

For…

Writing your first OSGI Service in Liferay 7

In this article we will try to understand about OSI Service and its usage. In Liferay 7, OSGI plays a vital role. So its very important to understand the basics of OSGI Service. In this article we will create a basic OSGI service and in the next article we will create a portlet to consume this service.

Whats OSGI Service???

1.An OSGI Service is simply a instance of Java Object registered in…