Discontinued functionality in Content Delivery

Running server-side Content Delivery microservices in a web application (that is, as WAR files) is discontinued as of SDL Tridion Sites 9. Client-side Content Delivery software components and APIs continue to run in (your) web applications.

As of SDL Web 8 Cumulative Update 1, Content Delivery server-side software components running as web applications were already deprecated. Instead, the recommended way to run such items was in the form of standalone microservices. As a transitional measure, SDL Web 8 Cumulative Update 1 allowed you to run the new microservices inside a Java/JSP web application, so that you could upgrade your Java/JSP web application-based server-side software without having to migrate to standalone microservices yet.

As of SDL Web 8.5, the WAR files required for such an implementation no longer shipped with the product, and could only be obtained through SDL Customer Support. It is strongly recommended that you migrate to standalone microservices.

As of SDL Tridion Sites 9, support for using microservices in the form of a web application is discontinued.