Before Liferay DXP if we need to provide some configuration then we have two option :-
1)Provide configuration in portal-ext.properties
2)Use portal.properties
In both cases we need to either redeploy the portlet or restart the server. In this blog we will see how to make our application configurable so that we don't need to restart or redeploy the portlet.Here i am using Liferay 7.3
So lets start this step by step :-