G2

Bhargav B.

Liferay Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/3/2026

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Liferay DXP: Flexible, Modular Portal Building with Powerful Extensions"

5/5

What do you like best about Liferay Digital Experience Platform?

What I like best about Liferay DXP is how flexible it is for building enterprise portals without starting from scratch. Fragments, master pages and Style Books make it fast to build and restyle pages, and Client Extensions let us set up objects, workflows, roles and pages in a repeatable way instead of configuring everything by hand. The modular OSGi structure keeps our custom code separate and easy to deploy, and Service Builder saves a lot of boilerplate by generating the service and persistence layers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Liferay Digital Experience Platform?

The main downside is the learning curve. It takes time for new developers to understand OSGi modules, the api/service/web split in Service Builder, and when a full buildService is needed versus a simple deploy. There are also several ways to do similar setup work (module activators, site initializers, batch client extensions), and it isn’t always obvious which one to choose, with small gotchas like dependency injection not working inside a BundleActivator. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Liferay Digital Experience Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Liferay DXP to build enterprise portals where users get one place for content, documents and business workflows. It solves the problem of building these portals from scratch: page building, roles and permissions, content and document management, and workflows come built in, so we can deliver features faster. Client Extensions and site initializers let us set up objects, workflows, roles and pages in a repeatable way, which cuts down manual setup work, and the built-in scheduler lets us automate recurring jobs such as generating PDFs and sending emails. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.