Changes to Content Delivery
This section describes the changes to Content Delivery in SDL Tridion 2011.
- Scalable deployment
- This release introduces the ability to scale up your Content Deployer, enabling it to handle more throughput.
- Content Delivery Web service
- To enable you to share your published content with outside parties, Content Delivery now provides a Web service that lets your affiliates retrieve your published content from the Content Data Store.
- Storage in multiple storage mediums
- The Storage Layer replaces Broker bindings and home classes in SDL Tridion 2011. The Storage Layer lets you store content in multiple databases, file systems, in a custom storage medium, or in a combination of these.
- More metadata
- In SDL Tridion 2011, more (system and custom) metadata from the Content Manager can be made available in the Content Delivery server. Also, when retrieving the custom metadata for a Component, the metadata can now be fully loaded and initialized. The same goes for Taxonomy Keywords.
- Ambient Data Framework
- The Ambient Data Framework, delivered with SmartTarget 2010, is now a part of Content Delivery in SDL Tridion 2011. Use the Ambient Data Framework to gather and transform Web site data, such as information about your visitor or about the current session. The data can be used by the Content Delivery Web service and in the SmartTarget add-on product. You can extend the framework by creating your own Ambient Data Framework cartridges.
- Transport Connector replaces Sender-Receiver pair
- To implement a specific type of transport in SDL Tridion 2011, including custom transport, use the com.tridion.connection.TransportConnector interface. The interface replaces the Sender class extending com.tridion.transport.Sender on the Content Manager side and a Receiver class on the Content Delivery side.
- Encryption of sensitive strings
- You can now encrypt sensitive strings, such as passwords in Content Delivery configuration files, using the encryption tool. For more information, refer to the installation topics.
- Search filter now implemented in Content Broker Query API
- In SDL Tridion 2011, implement search filtering in the Content Broker Query API. The API replaces Tridion.ContentDelivery.DynamicContent.Filters which is deprecated.
- New logging framework
- In SDL Tridion 2011 the existing logging framework, which required a logging section in each configuration file, has been replaced by the Logback logging framework. Refer to the upgrade topics to learn how to turn your old logging configuration into a new one.