Liferay Upgrade
Liferay is constantly upgrading its capabilities with every new release. Liferay’s latest 7.4 upgrade is a game-changer for organizations, offering advanced features, improved performance, and heightened security. Our upgrade services encompass database cleanup, workspace, module, customization, theme, and template upgrades, ensuring seamless transitions and maximizing benefits for our clients.
- Data-driven Optimization
- Empower Digital Builders
- Seamless B2B Buying
- Data-driven Optimization
- Empower Digital Builders
- Seamless B2B Buying
- Low/no-code Empowerment
- Reduce the Cost and Effort
- Low/no-code Empowerment
- Reduce the Cost and Effort
Here we outline high level activities/process we follow for the Liferay upgrade
With our vast experience in Liferay upgrade service, we have defined the below steps to successfully upgrade the previous Liferay server to a new server.
Backup Everything
- Backup of everything which includes the database, Liferay Server folder, Source code, Configurations, and binary files like images, documents, and PDFs.
Data Cleanup
- Remove unnecessary database records like previous versions of web content, blogs, audit records, Kaleo log records, and many more after assessing the existing Liferay Portal.
- Remove previous versions of documents to minimize data folder size.
- It recommended writing a Liferay module that will delete records and documents using Liferay’s API rather than directing deleting using SQL queries or file removal. This way we will able to delete associated records in other tables and the data cleanup process will be error-less. We can easily run cleanup in multiple environments.
Database upgrade
- Copy the document_library folder from the previous Liferay to the new Liferay server folder.
- Upgrade the Liferay database using the Liferay upgrade tool. Do configurations like increasing memory for JVM, disabling indexing during the upgrade, and disabling filters during the upgrade.
- During the Liferay database upgrade, the process throws errors related to data and we need to update data in the previous version of Liferay to solve these errors. In this case, we need to start the Liferay upgrade process from the beginning.
- The Liferay database upgrade tool will convert existing Liferay data to new Liferay version data after the successful completion of the database upgrade.
New Liferay Server Setup
- Configure new Liferay server with upgraded database, Update Liferay configuration properties file ( remove deprecated property and add new relevant property ).
- Start the Liferay server with migrated data.
- Observe the default behavior of the Liferay after the database upgrade.
- Check all portlet conditions from the gogo shell.
- Check the error logs while the Liferay startup process
- Reindex the data to the elastic search.
- Check a few pages and compare it with the previous version of Liferay
Upgrade Template files
- Upgrade Liferay template files for web content templates, and widget templates if the Liferay portal is giving you errors on pages for Liferay templates.
Source Code Management
- Create a new branch from the master branch of the previous Liferay source code so that we can keep the previous history of the source code. We keep the practice of pushing source code upgrade changes in the new branch so that we know the history of changes we have done during the upgrade process.
Liferay Workspace Upgrade
- To upgrade the Liferay workspace, we can follow two approaches.
- The process is dependent on the codebase structure and size.
- Workspace upgrade contains below changes
- IDE upgrade tool
- Manual upgrade
- Gradle properties changes
- Gradle dependency files
- Gradle wrapper jar and property file
Liferay Theme Upgrade
- Upgrade the Liferay theme with the new version of LIferay by either following Liferay's standard way of theme upgrade or creating a new Liferay theme with the latest version and copying CSS, JS, fonts, and other theme-related files from the previous version of Liferay theme.
Liferay Layout template upgrade
- Upgrade the Liferay Layout template modules to the newer version. It includes creating new layout template module and copying the layout XML, configuration files.
Liferay Service Builder Module Upgrade
- Service builder upgrade depends on the below changes
- Service.xml file upgrade to the latest version supported file
- Generate the new service class by performing the buildService command
- Update the service implementation classes (especially component declarations and imports)
- Check the bnd.bnd related settings and update it.
Liferay MVC Module Upgrade
- Find less dependent modules by inspecting the build.gradle
- Here Major work involves updating the build.gradle, bnd.bnd files, and replace Liferay APIs with new Liferay version API. The use of a Gogo shell will be helpful.
- Update the import statements in the class as per the new dependencies.
Liferay JSP fragment upgrade
- Liferay JSP fragment upgrade is not strait forward process. We need to create new fragment module for the new Liferay version and get all the changes one by one in the fragment that we did for the previous Liferay version.
Liferay Customization Upgrade
- Liferay customization like service wrappers and model listeners perform big roles in functionalities
- It includes changing the attributes, imports, method parameters, etc.
- Other customizations like search tuning.
- We need to validate the customization against Liferay OOTB features.
- If things are not well with OOTB features, we need to customize the search based on the latest version supported way.
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