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HCL Digital Experience Product DocumentationWelcome to the product documentation for HCL Digital Experience. Find information about how to install, configure, maintain, and use HCL Web Content Manager and HCL Portal Server, Enable, and Extend solutions.
HCL Digital Experience 8.5Learn how to install, configure, troubleshoot, maintain and use Version 8.5 of HCL Web Content Manager and HCL Portal Server, Enable, and Extend.
Developing This section includes developer documentation on extending applications and development assets for HCL Portal and HCL Web Content Manager.
Digital Data Connector (DDC) for HCL PortalYou can use the Digital Data Connector (DDC) for HCL Portal framework to integrate data from external data sources on your portal pages by using HCL Web Content Manager presentation components. External data means that the data does not need to be stored directly in HCL Web Content Manager. For example, you can use DDC to render social data that you have on your HCL Connections server or on other social platforms in the context of your portal pages. Other possible data sources include news feeds, task lists, product catalog information, to name just a few.
Digital Data Connector cache tuningTo improve performance, you can tune the caches for the HCL Digital Data Connector (DDC) for HCL Portal framework.

Digital Data Connector cache tuning

To improve performance, you can tune the caches for the HCL Digital Data Connector (DDC) for HCL Portal framework.

Both social rendering and the DDC framework use the same caches to cache bean list information.