Category Archives: DD4T

Introducing DD4T version 2.0 for Java

DD4T, Spring MVC, Tridion

Over the past months a number of people have been working hard to beef up the current implementation of DD4T for Java, as was announced during the SDL Tridion User Group Benelux Meeting at Trivident last October.

As the work is now in its finishing stage, the time is right to reveal the changes that have been made to make working with DD4T for Java a better experience and to mature the framework to a level where it truly becomes a full framework in support of the Tridion Content Delivery Stack, as well as in terms of following standard Java practices.

The expected release date of version 2.0 is January 30th, 2015. Read on to see the long list of changes.

[Update: The release date of version 2.0 is rescheduled to March 2nd, 2015]
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SmartTarget 2014 SP1 and DD4T in a Java environment

DD4T, SmartTarget, Tridion

As Nick Roussakov explains in his excellent post, it is very easy to integrate DD4T and SmartTarget 2014 – at least, no harder than it is to implement SmartTarget on any type of system.

If you are implementing the java version of DD4T things are even easier. First of all, you can simply add the out of the box Add to SmartTarget TBB to a dynamic DD4T component template. This will make sure that the component presentation is available in FredHopper – as described by Nick.
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DD4T on tour – Our first developer training

DD4T, Services, Tridion

Last week saw the premiere of Trivident’s new 2-day DD4T developer training.  I traveled to the United Kingdom to deliver it to a group of very knowledgeable ASP.NET MVC developers with little or no Tridion skills.

Once again it was proven that DD4T successfully closes the gap between the world of Tridion and the world of web application developers. By the end of day 2, they were already quite productive. So much so, in fact, that I ran out of material and had to improvise a bit.

The training environment was based on Tridion 2013 SP1 and ASP.NET MVC 5. For me the first time to try that combination, but it ran smoothly right away.

We hope to be delivering this training more often.