Liferay Custom Portlet & Module Development Services
Liferay Custom Portlet Development helps businesses extend Liferay DXP and Liferay Portal with customized functionality, reusable OSGi modules, and business-specific application components. We develop scalable, maintainable solutions that streamline workflows, enhance portal experiences, and support evolving enterprise requirements.
Custom Liferay Development to Extend Your Portal Capabilities
Liferay custom portlet and module development helps businesses extend standard portal functionality to meet specialized requirements. From interactive portlets to reusable OSGi services, we build modular solutions that improve user experiences, streamline workflows, and support seamless integration with your existing Liferay environment.
Our Liferay custom development approach enables enterprises to introduce specialized application functionality without compromising their existing portal architecture. These tailored solutions support unique business processes, enhance portal capabilities, and provide flexibility for future enhancements.
Signs Your Liferay Portal Needs Custom Development
Standard Liferay functionality may not fully support every business process. Custom development helps address gaps while keeping your portal maintainable and adaptable.
Standard portal features that do not match business workflows
Limited flexibility in existing portlets and customizations
Complex requirements involving multiple portal components
Legacy custom code that is difficult to maintain
External API requirements and complex data flows
Repeated functionality across portal pages
Compatibility concerns during Liferay upgrades
Performance, security, or access-control issues
Liferay Custom Development Capabilities
We choose the right extension approach for your Liferay version and deployment model, from low-code Liferay Objects to Client Extensions and Java-based OSGi modules.
Low-Code with Liferay Objects
- Custom data models without custom Java code
- Validations, actions and approval workflows
- Automatically generated headless APIs
- Available on Liferay SaaS, PaaS and self-hosted
Client Extensions
- React, Angular and Vue frontends as custom elements
- Microservices for business logic and object actions
- Decoupled from the platform core, which simplifies upgrades
- Required approach on Liferay SaaS
Java and OSGi Modules
- MVC portlets and OSGi services
- Service Builder persistence layers
- Deep platform customization
- Jakarta EE-ready modules for current Liferay releases
- For self-hosted and Liferay PaaS deployments
Our Liferay Custom Portlet & Module Development Services
We develop and enhance Liferay components that address specific business requirements while supporting maintainability, performance, and future improvements. Our Liferay Custom Portlet Development services cover interactive portlets, custom business logic, reusable components, and enterprise application requirements.
Custom Liferay Portlet Development
- Business-specific functionality
- Interactive portal components
- Custom forms and data displays
- User-focused interfaces
Liferay OSGi Module Development
- Modular Java components
- Reusable application functionality
- OSGi service development
- Maintainable module architecture
Liferay MVC & Service Development
- MVC portlet implementation
- Custom business logic
- Service-layer development
- Data processing and validation
Liferay Service Builder Development
- Entity and service configuration
- Persistence-layer development
- Generated service integration
- Business data management
Custom Liferay API & System Integration
- Liferay API connectivity
- REST API integration
- External service communication
- Error handling and validation
Custom Module Maintenance & Enhancement
- Existing module assessment
- Bug fixes and feature updates
- Compatibility reviews
- Performance and code improvements
Liferay Objects & Client Extensions Development
- Liferay Objects data models and business rules
- Custom element and IFrame client extensions
- Object action and workflow action client extensions
- Moving existing customizations to client extensions
Liferay Customization Modernization and Optimization
Modernizing a Liferay portal can improve maintainability, address technical limitations, and prepare your digital platform for evolving business requirements. We assess your existing implementation and recommend an appropriate upgrade, refactoring, or optimization strategy.
Code Quality & Performance
- Refactor legacy portlets and modules
- Replace outdated APIs and dependencies
- Optimize database queries and processing
- Improve logging and error handling
Security & Maintainability
- Review authorization and access controls
- Improve module separation and code reuse
- Strengthen testing and deployment practices
- Assess compatibility with target Liferay versions
Why Enterprises Choose Inexture for Liferay Custom Development
We focus on building practical, maintainable Liferay customizations that align with your business processes and existing portal architecture.
Business-specific portlets and modular functionality
Java-based development for Liferay environments
Reusable components and maintainable architecture
API integration and service-layer development
Performance, security, and code-quality considerations
Version-aware development and testing practices
Years of Engineering Excellence
12
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Developers
100
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Delivered Projects
900
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Happy Clients
200
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Our Engineering Approach
Successful Liferay customization requires more than adding new features. Our approach emphasizes understanding business requirements, selecting suitable Liferay extension points, and delivering well-structured code that can be tested, maintained, and enhanced over time.
From custom MVC portlets to OSGi services and Service Builder implementations, we focus on solutions that fit your existing Liferay architecture and technical requirements.
Liferay Development Technologies We Specialize In
We select technologies based on your Liferay version, application architecture, business requirements, and deployment model to build maintainable custom solutions.
Programming languages
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Java
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JavaScript
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TypeScript
Liferay Technologies & Frameworks
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Liferay DXP
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OSGi
UI Frameworks
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React.js
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Angular frontends for Liferay
Databases & Search
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PostgreSQL
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MySQL
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ElasticSearch
API & Integration
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REST APIs
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OAuth
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JAX-RS
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REST & GraphQL APIs
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SAML
Tools & DevOps
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Docker
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Kubernetes
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Maven
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Gradle
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Jenkins
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CI/CD
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AWS
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Azure
Industries We Serve
Government & Public Sector
Government & Public Sector
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FAQs
1. What is Liferay custom portlet development?
Liferay custom portlet development involves creating application components that deliver business-specific functionality within a Liferay portal, such as custom forms, dashboards, and workflow interfaces.
2. What is the difference between a Liferay portlet and an OSGi module?
A portlet provides a user-facing application component, while an OSGi module is a modular unit of functionality that can contain portlets, services, or other Liferay extensions.
3. Can you develop custom modules for Liferay DXP?
Yes. Custom modules can extend Liferay DXP through Java-based components, OSGi services, MVC portlets, and other supported extension mechanisms, depending on the target version. On Liferay SaaS, custom functionality is delivered as Client Extensions instead of OSGi modules.
4. When should I use Liferay Service Builder?
Service Builder is useful when an application needs structured entities, persistence, and generated service layers. It remains an option on self-hosted and Liferay PaaS deployments, while Liferay Objects is the recommended low-code alternative for many new data models.
5. Can you enhance existing Liferay portlets and modules?
Yes. Existing customizations can be assessed for bugs, performance, maintainability, security, and compatibility before enhancements are implemented.
6. Can custom Liferay modules integrate with external APIs?
Yes. Custom modules can communicate with external services through suitable APIs and integration patterns, with appropriate authentication, validation, and error handling.
7. Will custom modules remain compatible after a Liferay upgrade?
Compatibility depends on the target release, APIs used, dependencies, and existing implementation. Custom modules should be reviewed and tested as part of an upgrade. For example, from 2025.Q3 Liferay moved to Jakarta EE, so custom modules must move from javax.* to jakarta.* packages.
8. How do you ensure custom Liferay modules are maintainable?
We emphasize modular design, appropriate separation of concerns, code reviews, testing, logging, and documentation aligned with project requirements.
FAQs
1. What are enterprise software development services?
They cover the design, build, and long-term support of large-scale software for complex organizations: platforms that integrate multiple systems, serve many user roles, meet strict security standards, and scale to heavy load. It’s a different discipline from building a standard app, because the hard part is usually the integration, governance, and scale, not the feature itself.
2. How is enterprise software different from custom software?
The line is scale and complexity. Custom software is built around one team’s way of working. Enterprise software has to hold up across departments, integrate with legacy systems, enforce role-based access and compliance, and stay reliable for thousands of users. Every enterprise build is custom, but not every custom build carries the same demands.
3. Do you work with Liferay and Adobe Experience Manager?
Both are core to what we do. We’re an Adobe Solution Partner with deep Liferay DXP experience, and we build portals, intranets, and content platforms on both, including upgrades, migrations, and headless implementations.
4. Can you modernize our existing legacy systems?
Legacy modernization is one of the most common reasons enterprises come to us. We refactor code, break monoliths into microservices, migrate databases, and move systems to cloud-native infrastructure, all in phased stages so daily operations keep running.
5. How do you handle security and compliance?
Security is designed in from the architecture stage, with role-based access, encryption, identity management (SSO, OAuth2, SAML, SCIM), and audit trails. For regulated industries we engineer to the relevant standards rather than retrofitting them before launch.
6. Can you integrate with our ERP, CRM, and existing systems?
Integration is usually the center of an enterprise build, not a side task. We connect through APIs and proven integration patterns across ERP, CRM, HRMS, IAM, payment systems, and custom platforms, including older systems that weren’t designed to connect easily.
7. Do you provide ongoing support after the platform launches?
Launch is the start of the relationship. We offer continued monitoring, optimization, and dedicated engineering support, and many clients keep a long-term team in place to evolve the platform as their needs grow.
8. How do you handle cost, TCO, and ROI on a large build?
We look at total cost of ownership early, not just the build price: licensing, infrastructure, maintenance, and the cost of the manual work the software replaces. Before locking scope, we help you weigh the return,
which features justify the investment and which can wait, so the roadmap follows value rather than a wish list.
9. Can you build AI and machine learning into our systems?
Yes, where it adds real value rather than novelty. That ranges from intelligent automation and predictive analytics to deeper AI work delivered through inexture.ai. We build the clean data and API foundations that make those capabilities dependable instead of bolted on.
