A typical DD4T page simply displays the component presentations on that page. But what if your requirements go a little further than that? What if you are asked to show a list of all press releases in the system, and you want to retrieve them from SDL’s broker database? This article explains how you would set about to achieve this.
Category Archives: Spring MVC
Changes in DD4T 2.1 for Java
Version 2.1 of DD4T has seen many improvements and changes with respect to the DD4T 2.0.X branch. While most changes are compatible with 2.0.X, it is recommended to upgrade your web application to the 2.1.X version. The main reason is that the 2.0.X releases will be discontinued and active development on it has stopped. Additionally, new versions of the DD4T Template Building Blocks may push new data formats or properties to the front end and these will only be incorporated in the DD4T 2.1 branch. New implementations are further encouraged to use the latest version, even if you already have published DD4T 1.0 XML or DD4T 2.0.X / 2.1.X Json in your Broker database, in order make use of the latest support for libraries, Tridion and fixed issues.
Introducing DD4T Version 2.1 for Java
As is tradition by now to release new full versions in the last days of the year, the end of 2017 brings again a brand new release of DD4T and it sure is by now a battle hardened, try to kill me but you won’t be able to release in full use at quite a few high volume and high load production environments.
Going polymorph with ViewModels in DD4T Java 2.0
Plato (~423 BC – ~347 BC) was a pretty smart guy. Among his many ideas and thoughts, his Theory of Forms had an immense influence on how we perceive and solve the philosophical Problem of universals. It basically comes down to the idea that every physical object has one or more essences (or Forms) and that if that object would not have that Form, it would not be that object: a dog is Mammal, but a giraffe is also a Mammal. What makes both animals Mammals? It’s, simply put, the Idea of the Mammal.
DD4T Thymeleaf Support released
Today we released version 2.0.7 of DD4T for Java. This version includes support for the Thymeleaf view language. Thymeleaf is a fast-growing view framework for Java web applications, which can be used as an alternative for JSP. I recently blogged about it as well.