Ask - Liferay (2024)

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Why not to use Liferay? ›

My final thoughts are, Liferay is a nightmare to use probably unless you're paying for the support. If the documentation was better, it'd be a whole different story. For that, however, the developers would have to believe in documentation, and I don't believe that's the case.

Liferay DXP's Message Boards app is a forum application that can be added to any DXP site page. A Message Board on DXP can be scoped to a site, including a regular site, an organization's site, or a user's profile site or dashboard site.

Liferay Portal isn't a new technology – if it was a person, it could already drink beer and drive a car – but thanks to constant development and improvement by its creators, it still remains relevant in 2024.

While it was first developed more than 10 years ago, it still adapts to new technologies and trends. Liferay Portal is available in two editions: Community Edition and Enterprise Edition. The Community Edition, free and licensed under the LGNU public license, is a very popular choice for building company portals.

Whatever your case may be, Liferay's service wrappers provide easy-to-use extension points for customizing Liferay's services. To create a module that overrides one of Liferay's services, follow the Service Wrapper Template reference article to create a servicewrapper project type.

Liferay DXP's Documents and Media library provides a mechanism for storing files online using the same type of structure that you use to store files locally. You can use it to store files of any kind; it serves as a virtual shared drive, and can mount and browse external repositories.

Overview. Take these general limitations into consideration when planning to use Liferay Cloud: Limits apply on the available vCPUs, memory, scaling, network configurations (domains, SSL certificates, and IP addresses), and VPN bandwidth for each service. For instance, each service is limited to a maximum 200 GB RAM.

If you work on projects that require such solutions, knowing about Liferay might be advantageous. Specific Project Requirements: If you're working on a project or in an organization that uses Liferay, studying it will help you contribute effectively and grasp the technological stack.

Is Liferay a low-code platform? ›

Liferay's Low-Code functionality allowed WBMI to reduce paper-based submissions and reduce the time needed to generate a quote to less than ten minutes.