Spring MVC Portlet Migration - DXP

Friends, Do you want to migrate your Spring MVC portlet into DXP ? yooo here are the steps you will have to follow to get it migrate. Before we jump into steps, let me light up regarding spring mvc. Actually Spring MVC is purely used for web project architect and there is no any specific intention to get it convert into OSGi module jar. So here we may not be able to convert it into module jar but  such kind of portlets will get deployed...

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Custom portlet configuration - DXP

Hello Folks, Here I have tried to put all the possible steps which we would required to introduce custom portlet configuration. 1) Create new Liferay module using mvcportlet template 2) Define below highlighted property in your controller class: @Component(         immediate = true,         property = {                 "javax.portlet.name=SamplePortlet",    ...

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Overriding classes and properties using OSGi - DXP

Hello Friends, Here i have published all possible ways to override Liferay classes and properties for which we were using hook in older Liferay version.   1) Create Custom portlet data handler  @Component(         property = {             "javax.portlet.name=com.sample.portlet"         },        ...

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Liferay MVC Portlet with Service Builder - DXP

Friends, Here you will see how you can create Liferay MVC portlet with best practice. If you remember, we were creating portlets in 6.X by selecting specific portlet type from IDE and choosing weather we have to use service builder or not. So there it was creating only one single portlet including service layer. Now in DXP, you will have to separately create service layer and web portlet layer . Now here we will have to keep 2 things in our mind. 1)...

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Issues During 6.X to DXP migration

There are couple of common problem which we might facing during migration or upgration from 6.X to Liferay DXP. We will discuss all possible items over here. ...

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Overriding LPKG Files : Liferay DXP

Liferay provides a way to update modules without modifying the original LPKG file they're packaged in. You can do this by overriding the LPKG file. To override a JAR or WAR from any LPKG other than the Static LPKG,  1) first create a folder named override in the Liferay instance's osgi/marketplace folder. 2) Drop the updated JAR into this folder, making sure its name is the same as the JAR in the original LPKG, minus the version info....

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6.X Portlet to DXP Module Convesion

Follow below steps to convert Liferay MVC Portlet to Module: 1)  First Step is, you will have to download plugin-sdk for DXP/Liferay 7 because Liferay has provided one tool which gives you facility to show breaking API changes in your portlet. 2) Once you run this tool, it will give you all the breaking Liferay API (Not Custom code) report for Java and JSP files.  Note: Sometimes it doesn't work to generate report. So restart your...

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DB Upgrade 6.X to DXP

As you know Liferay is moved to DXP version now and all existing Liferay customer will migrate or upgrade to newer version of DXP. Here in these series of  blogs, you will see all step by step guide which will help you to follow all the necessary steps for the migration to DXP. As a part of migration/up-gradation, Database comes first everywhere which you must require to migrate to make it compatible with new version. Here we will...

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Liferay DXP Setup

Follow below steps to setup local Liferay DXP : Below Tools and software are required to setup Liferay DXP in local machine  : A.    JDK-8B.    JPM C.    BladeD.    Liferay DXP (Tomcat bundle)E.    Liferay Plugin-SDK ...

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Know Module And Component

The main reason for LIFERAY to move into module framework is, Creating small modules (Tightly coupled) Publish and consume other modules features (Inflexible) Working without static dependencies (Dynamic dependencies) To use module framework, You mainly need to understand below 3 concepts : Modules Components Application Lifecycle  Module: Module is something which is group of Java classes, other optional resources,...

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What is OSGi ?

OSGi :  Open Service Gateway Initiative OSGi is architecture to develop and deploy a modules in modular (Some times refers as Micro Services) application. OSGi containers such as knopflerfish, Equinox and Apache Felix are responsible to divide and load your modules dependencies. OSGi Specifications: => Set of services that OSGi container implements => Contract between your application and container Benefits to use...

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Sharepoint REST API call

Guys, I am sure this snippet will help you a lot when you do sharepoint REST integration to read file...

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Useful Roles and permission API

Reading portlet resources and model resources: <pre> List<String> portletResources = ResourceActionsUtil.getPortletResourceActions(PortletLocalServiceUtil.getPortletById(portletId).getPortletId()); List<String> modelResource = ResourceActionsUtil.getPortletModelResources(portletId); </pre&g...

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OpenAM (OpenSSO) + Liferay 6.2

We are starting OpenAM integration by considering we have setup OpenDJ with Liferay. See http://www.liferaysolution.com/2016/03/opendj-liferay-62.html Install OpenDJ 1) Download OpenAM-11.0.0.war from https://backstage.forgerock.com/#!/downloads/OpenAM/OpenAM%20Enterprise/11.0.0/OpenAM%2011#list 2)  You can deploy this war file in the same tomcat where your liferay is runinng or you can deploy in separate tomcat server...

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OpenDJ + Liferay 6.2

Follow below steps to integrate OpenAM & OpenDJ with Liferay 6.2 : Install OpenDJ : 1) Download OpenDJ-3.0.0.zip from https://backstage.forgerock.com/#!/downloads/OpenDJ/OpenDJ%20Enterprise/3.0.0/OpenDJ%203%20Zip/zip#list 2) Extract OpenDJ-3.0.0.zip and Click on setup .bat file to do a setup of OpenDJ 3) Click next and check mark the accept checkbox 4) Server Setting Screen : FQHN : opendj.jignesh.com LDAP listner...

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Liferay 7 : Open source OSGi containers

If you want to develop complex web application and if you want to break up the application in various madules like one for DAO Layer, view layer and data access layer. Using OSGi container, you can manage cross dependencies between all these modules and deploy this is also without restarting the server. If you application is OSGi compliant, you should be able to run your application in any of the below open source OSGi container : 1) Apache Felix 2)...

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JSON Web Service

Friends, You may be aware that Liferay provides facility to expose remote service in form of REST and SOAP. ...

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