SDL Digital Experience Accelerator Java Spring MVC web application

The SDL Digital Experience Accelerator (DXA) is a reference implementation of SDL Web (version 8, 8.5, or Cloud) that we provide to help you more quickly create, design, and publish a website based on SDL Web.

DXA is available for both .NET and Java web applications. Its modular architecture consists of a framework and example web application, which includes all core SDL Web functionality as well as separate Modules for additional, optional functionality.

This repository contains the source code of the DXA Framework, an example Java web application, and a Maven archetype for Java.

The full DXA distribution (including Content Manager-side items and installation support) is downloadable from the SDL Appstore site (latest version) or the Releases in GitHub (all versions) Furthermore, the compiled DXA artifacts are available on Maven Central.

To facilitate upgrades, we strongly recommend that you use official, compiled DXA artifacts from Maven Central instead of a custom build. If you really must modify the DXA framework, we kindly request you to submit your changes as a Contribution (see the Branches and Contributions section below).

At SDL we take your investment in Digital Experience very seriously, and will do our best to support you throughout this journey. If you encounter any issues with the Digital Experience Accelerator, please reach out to us via one of the following channels:

• Report issues directly in this repository
• Ask questions 24/7 on the SDL Web Community at https://tridion.stackexchange.com
• Contact Technical Support through the SDL Support web portal at https://www.sdl.com/support

Documentation can be found online in the SDL documentation portal: http://docs.sdl.com/sdldxa20

The following repositories with source code are available:

• https://github.com/sdl/dxa-content-management - CM-side framework (.NET Template Building Blocks)
• https://github.com/sdl/dxa-html-design - Whitelabel HTML Design
• https://github.com/sdl/dxa-model-service - Model Service (Java)
• https://github.com/sdl/dxa-modules - Modules (.NET and Java)
• https://github.com/sdl/dxa-web-application-dotnet - ASP.NET MVC web application (including framework)
• https://github.com/sdl/dxa-web-application-java - Java Spring MVC web application (including framework)

We are using the following branching strategy:

• master - Represents the latest stable version. This may be a pre-release version (tagged as DXA x.y Sprint z). Updated each development Sprint (approximately bi-weekly).
• develop - Represents the latest development version. Updated very frequently (typically nightly).
• release/x.y - Represents the x.y Release. If hotfixes are applicable, they will be applied to the appropriate release branch so that the branch actually represents the initial release plus hotfixes.

All releases (including pre-releases and hotfix releases) are tagged.

Note that development sources (on develop branch) have dependencies on SNAPSHOT versions of the DXA artifacts, which are available here: https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/com/sdl/dxa/

If you wish to submit a Pull Request, it should normally be submitted on the develop branch so that it can be incorporated in the upcoming release.

Fixes for severe/urgent issues (that qualify as hotfixes) should be submitted as Pull Requests on the appropriate release branch.

Always submit an Issue for the problem, and indicate whether you think it qualifies as a hotfix. Pull Requests on release branches will only be accepted after agreement on the severity of the issue. Furthermore, Pull Requests on release branches are expected to be extensively tested by the submitter.

Of course, it is also possible (and appreciated) to report an issue without associated Pull Requests.

The current DXA Builder is available in Maven Central, and the latest DXA Builder is also available as a public snapshot.

If you have not configured a snapshot repository and don't want to, you may need to install the DXA Builder locally in order to run the SNAPSHOT.

To install it, run the wrapper script of the dxa-builder project: gradlew(.bat) publishLocal On Windows, you can also just run get-started.cmd script at first run.

DD4T 2.1 for Java is incorporated into the DXA codebase in the dxa-compatible artifact. As a result, when migrating from DD4T to DXA, you do not need separate dependencies on DD4T.

DXA publishes SNAPSHOT versions to Sonatype. To use them, configure https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots as a repository in your Maven settings. Read this for instructions.

Copyright (c) 2014-2018 SDL Group.

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