- Develop:
The RWS Digital Experience Accelerator (DXA) is a reference implementation of RWS Tridion Sites 9 and RWS Web 8 intended to help you create, design and publish an RWS Tridion/Web-based website quickly.
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 Tridion/Web functionality as well as separate Modules for additional, optional functionality.
This repository contains the source code of the legacy DXA Model Service: a separate microservice that can be deployed on an Web CIS backend, version 8 or higher.
DXA 2.0 introduced the DXA Model Service to improve overall performance and to provide a more lightweight DXA framework in the web application. As of DXA 2.1 and DXD 11.0, the Model Service functionality is provided by the new GraphQL Content Service (as an extension of DXD 11.0 called the DXA Model Extension). RWS continues to provide the standalone DXA Model Service for backward compatibility with RWS Web 8.x and to facilitate rolling upgrades.
The compiled code for the both the legacy, standalone DXA Model Service and the DXA Model Extension is downloadable from the SDL AppStore as part of a DXA .NET or Java distributions.
You need Maven 3.2+ to build the Model Service from source. Maven should be available in the system PATH.
mvn install
Note, if you intend to just use the Model Service and not to make changes, you do not need to build it.
At RWS we take your investment in Digital Experience very seriously, if you encounter any issues with the Digital Experience Accelerator, please use one of the following channels:
- Report issues directly in this repository
- Ask questions 24/7 on the Tridion Community at https://tridion.stackexchange.com
- Contact RWS Professional Services for DXA release management support packages to accelerate your support requirements
Documentation can be found online in the SDL documentation portal: https://docs.sdl.com/sdldxa
You can find all the DXA related repositories here
We are using the following branching strategy:
develop- Represents the latest development version.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 are tagged using the convention DXA_..
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.
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.
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