Liferay should be renamed as Deathray. Tbvh that thing is so shit that it takes a lifetime to deploy, 1 nano second to crash, and an eternity to debug.

Another Liferay victim! Welcome to the club :)))

I know your pain, bro. Believe you me, I do :)

Wait until you're so deep in it that you have to deal with its DB schemas.... WITHOUT A SINGLE FUCKING FOREIGN KEY. And even if you change smth there -- it's not reflected in the UI. And when you change smth else in the DB -- the whole Liferay factory-resets, including its DB tables, and if you don't have Ora Flashback or smth like it -- you're soooo fucked :)))

It's a minefield.

P.S. use JRebel for hot-reloads. Speeds up debugging VERY MUCH SIGNIFICANTLY. Saves hours every day.