What's New in Liferay DXP?

What’s New in Liferay DXP?

Name · Title · Dunn Solutions09/29/2016Chris Freund · Liferay Developer · Dunn Solutions

Today’s Agenda

Introduction to Dunn Solutions

Single Page Applications

Search Engine Changes

OSGI and Liferay DXP

Updating Liferay DXP Modules

Questions

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Today’s Agenda

Introduction to Dunn Solutions

Single Page Applications

Search Engine Changes

OSGI and Liferay DXP

Updating Liferay DXP Modules

Questions

Single Page Application

• Liferay DXP development will be based around Single Page Application.

• Will be using SennaJSfor SPA applications

• In an example, a page with two portlets, converted to SPA. Response time went from 2 seconds to 0.DXP seconds. Data went from 1,300 KB to 67.9 KB. Requests went from 42 to 11.

• Will be based on JQuery, no longer YUI.

• What does this mean for 6.2 written code?• AlloyUI 3 will be bundled with 7.0 and will work

• What if we are already using Jquery?• You will also be fine, AlloyUI 4’s components will be

exposed as Jquery plugins.

AlloyUI 4.0

• New Liferay Experience Language that is an extension of Bootstrap.

• Liferay will still support the Bootstrap framework, but developers have the option to go pure Bootstrap or pure Lexicon in 7.0.

• All out-of-the-box Liferay portlets will be designed using Lexicon.

Lexicon

Desktop

Tablet

Mobile Phone

Liferay DXP Search Engine Changes

• Liferay DXP will now use ElasticSearch as its search engine, which is built on top of Lucene.

• What is Elasticsearch?

“Elasticsearch is an open-source, broadly-distributable, readily-scalable, enterprise-grade search engine. Accessible through an extensive

and elaborate API, Elasticsearch can power extremely fast searches that support your data

discovery applications.”

Elasticsearch

• Currently the most popular enterprise search engine• Netflix, GitHub, Foursquare

• Developed in JAVA and the format is based on Schema-free JSON documents

• Allows searches to be performed between all nodes.

Elasticsearch

OSGI and Liferay DXP

• Modularity is at the core of the OSGi

• Java Framework for deploying modular programs• All applications, extensions, and customizations

built on Liferay are distributed and deployed as modules.

• Modules may have one or more components. Creating a component can be as easy as writing a Java class with the @component annotation.

• Modules are bundled as a JAR file that can be deployed.

OSGi Review

OSGi Lifecycle Review

• Module Lifecycles are dynamic. Modules can be started, stopped, updated while the LiferayPortal is running

OSGi Dependencies

• Service Registry• All modules must declare their

dependencies/services.

• Modules can declare dependencies on specific versions of other modules. This allows multiple versions of the same library to exist in the same environment and be used by multiple applications.

• Preferred tool used to create Liferay modules.• https://github.com/liferay/liferay-blade-

samples/tree/master/liferay-gradle

• Command line tool based on a Gradleenvironment• create: Creates a new Liferay module project from

available templates.• deploy: Builds and deploys bundles to the Liferay

module framework.• init: Initializes a new Liferay Workspace.• version: Displays version information about Blade

CLI.

Blade CLI

Updating Liferay DXP Modules

• Starting from Liferay DXP, each module can be upgraded separately.

• This means that there will be different release cycles for different portlets, no longer a single service package.

Liferay DXP Update

• https://dev.liferay.com/develop/reference/-/knowledge_base/7-0/breaking-changes

Liferay 7.0 Breaking Changes

Questions & Answers

Chris Freund · Liferay Developer · Dunn Solutions

cfreund@dunnsolutions.com

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