Digital Experience Accelerator (DXA)
While SDL Tridion Sites is typically deployed as a decoupled application, SDL does provide an optional open-source, MVC-based reference implementation called the SDL Digital Experience Accelerator, or DXA for short.
DXA is a fully functional website implementation for SDL Tridion Sites using responsive design techniques and the most modern web standards. It is based on years of best practice and provides a quick-start foundation for web projects, decreasing website implementation time dramatically.
The following table summarizes support by the various releases of DXA for this and other releases of SDL Tridion Sites, as well as the required version of Content Delivery for each combination.
| SDL Tridion Sites | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tridion release: | 8.5 | 9.0 | 9.1 | 9.5 | |
| DXA release | Content Delivery version: | 8.5* | 11.0.0 | 11.1.0 | 11.5.0 |
| DXA 1.7 | Framework and modules | Yes | |||
| DXA 1.8 | Framework and modules | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| In-process Model Service | Yes | ||||
| Experience Optimization module (with Fredhopper) | Yes | ||||
| DXA 2.0 | Framework and modules | Yes | |||
| REST Model Service | Yes | ||||
| Experience Optimization module (with Fredhopper) | Yes | ||||
| DXA 2.1 | Framework (for .NET only) | Yes | Yes | ||
| REST Model Service | Yes | Yes | |||
| PCA Client + DXA Model Extension | Yes | Yes | |||
| Experience Optimization module (with ElasticSearch) | Yes | Yes | |||
| DXA 2.2 | Framework | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| In-process Model Service | Yes | Yes | |||
| Custom Resolver | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Template Building Blocks | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| REST Model Service | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| PCA Client + DXA Model Extension | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Experience Optimization module (with ElasticSearch) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
* This combination does not support content mashups using the Tridion Docs Mashup module, which requires the GraphQL Content Service provided in Content Delivery 11.0 and later.
For detailed requirements for either DXA for Tridion Sites or DXA for Dynamic Documentation, refer to the related topics.