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HCL Digital Experience 9.5 [Legacy content]
Overview
HCL Digital Experience provides a single access point to web content and applications, while it delivers differentiated, personalized experiences for each user across multiple touchpoints, such as web, mobile, hybrid mobile/web applications, and more.
Product capabilities
HCL Digital Experience capabilities let you quickly implement web experiences that are engaging, flexible, and high performing. It delivers differentiated, personalized experiences for each user across multiple touchpoints (web, mobile, and hybrid mobile/web applications, and more). The HCL Digital Experience platforms, including foundation components such as HCL Portal, Web Content Manager, and Digital Asset Management services, support requirements for modern and adaptable digital experience platforms. Its capabilities and digital site delivery platform services enable designers, developers, marketers, and business professionals to collaborate and deliver digital experiences that are engaging, targeted, relevant and productive.
Mobile
The HCL Digital Experience platform presents mobile-enabled services support that enables you to deliver consistent, personalized cross-channel experiences quickly.
Development tools
Both the Web Experience Factory and IBM Rational Application Developer include functionality to help you develop exceptional web experiences for your mobile site visitors.

HCL Digital Experience 9.5 [Legacy content]
- Overview
  HCL Digital Experience provides a single access point to web content and applications, while it delivers differentiated, personalized experiences for each user across multiple touchpoints, such as web, mobile, hybrid mobile/web applications, and more.
  - What's new?
    HCL Digital Experience 9.5 provides new features for administrators, developers, and content authors. Learn what's new in HCL Digital Experience 9.5.
  - Product capabilities
    HCL Digital Experience capabilities let you quickly implement web experiences that are engaging, flexible, and high performing. It delivers differentiated, personalized experiences for each user across multiple touchpoints (web, mobile, and hybrid mobile/web applications, and more). The HCL Digital Experience platforms, including foundation components such as HCL Portal, Web Content Manager, and Digital Asset Management services, support requirements for modern and adaptable digital experience platforms. Its capabilities and digital site delivery platform services enable designers, developers, marketers, and business professionals to collaborate and deliver digital experiences that are engaging, targeted, relevant and productive.
    - Streamlined site creation
      You can use the Site Builder to generate your own Digital Experience site. For more information, see sitebuilder/sitebuilder_intro.html
    - Web analytics
      HCL Digital Experience (DX) includes a number of solutions to help you understand how visitors use your site, including server-side analytics and client-side analytics. Client-side analytics is also called active site analytics, which supports integration with popular Web Analytics tools such as Google Analytics and Unica Discover. For more information, see install/analyzing_digital_site_activity.html.
    - Web content
      HCL Digital Web Content Manager help you manage content, share information, and communicate your message.
    - HCL Digital Asset Management
      HCL Digital Asset Management (DAM) adds a central platform to store and include rich media assets in Digital Experience site content to present engaging, consistently branded experiences across digital channels.
    - Integration
      HCL Digital Experience offers multiple methods and services to integrate with many solutions.
    - Mobile
      The HCL Digital Experience platform presents mobile-enabled services support that enables you to deliver consistent, personalized cross-channel experiences quickly.
      - HCL Portal Mobile Experience
        Pages are optimized on smartphones, desktops, or almost any device. This optimization is made possible with the HCL Web Experience Factory smartphone builders, Progressive Web Application support, and more.
      - Progressive Web Applications
        Develop support that adds native mobile application experience and performance to your web site using browser-based functionality.
      - Mobile Preview
        Use the Mobile Preview simulator to view the presentation of Digital Experience site page components on select mobile devices.
      - Development tools
        Both the Web Experience Factory and IBM Rational Application Developer include functionality to help you develop exceptional web experiences for your mobile site visitors.
        Key concepts
        Learn more about the key concepts of HCL Web Experience Factory.
        HCL Web Experience Factory
        HCL Web Experience Factory (WEF) creates applications with rich, interactive digital experiences for delivery on desktop browsers, smartphones, tablets, and other channels. This application development tool enables developers to build custom web portlets, widgets, and applications for HCL Digital Experience, and IBM WebSphere Application Server environments.
        HCL Web Experience Factory Designer
        Learn more about HCL Web Experience Factory Designer.
    - Versatile framework
      HCL Digital Experience provides users a consistent view of content and applications and allows users to define specific sets of applications that are presented in a single context. Depending on the requesting device, the rendering of this application set may vary to fulfill the requirements of the device.
  - HCL Digital Experience Cloud Native 9.5
    HCL Digital Experience Cloud Native is a powerful digital experience platform optimized for deployment to Kubernetes container environments and supported on-premises platforms.
- Supported migration paths
  Migration is supported between equivalent HCL Digital Experience offerings.
- Supported installation and upgrade paths
  Installation and upgrade is supported between equivalent HCL Digital Experience offerings.
- Getting the software
  New and existing users need to register at the HCL Software License Portal and download their entitled HCL Digital Experience package(s).
- Creating your website
  Review the following topics to understand how to create your website using the latest HCL Digital Experience.
- Installing HCL Digital Experience
  Review the planning information on HCL Digital Experience, then select your operating system and installation pattern that most reflects your business needs.
- Configuring
  Run the following tasks after you install and deploy HCL Digital Experience. They address tasks that are typically run one time and have a global effect. Some configuration changes are made more frequently or do not have a global effect. These tasks are addressed in the Administering section.
- Backup and restore
  Backup and recovery of data files and databases is an essential operation for any business system, particularly for data and applications that run in production environments. Create and follow a plan for backing up and recovering data on all tiers of your HCL Digital Experience deployment. IBM Installation Manager must also be included in backup and recovery planning. If you back up the HCL Portal file structure and then install a fix pack, your HCL Digital Experience and IBM Installation Manager become out of sync after you restore the HCL Portal file system. This condition is not recoverable.
- Migrating
  Successful migration requires significant planning and preparation, understanding the tools that are involved, and careful execution of the appropriate steps in the order provided.
- Integrating
  Integrate HCL Digital Experience with software such as HCL Sametime to enable your users to collaborate more easily. You can also use the unified task list portlet to integrate HCL with your backend business process software, such as IBM Process Server.
- Administering
  Use the administration tools that are provided with the HCL Digital Experience to do various day-to-day administration tasks.
- Securing
  Security tasks include setting up property extension databases and custom user repositories, configuring and activating SSL, and configuring authentication. In addition, tasks such as activating Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) and NIST SP800-131a security modules and configuring external security managers such as Security Access Manager might be required to secure your portal environment.
- Monitoring
  HCL Portal includes tools and features to help you monitor the portal site.
- Setting up a website
  Setting up a website includes, creating pages, adding navigation, setting up search, and adding content to the site. Themes are used to customize the portal's look-and-feel. Out-of-the-box templates and the site wizard can help you set up your portal site faster. You can add wikis and blogs to your site and let users tag and rate content on your site.
- Staging to production
  During portal solution development, the solution is initially developed, tested, and refined on one server or a limited number of servers. The solution is deployed later on live systems, referred to as the production environment. The process of moving the solution from the development environment to the production environment is called staging.
- Developing
  This section includes developer documentation on extending applications and development assets for HCL Portal and HCL Web Content Manager.
- Docker and Containerization
  Find topic information about Docker and Containerization for HCL Digital Experience.
- Practitioner Studio
  Practitioner Studio is a newly designed user experience for HCL Digital Experience. Please see the following pages to understand how the new navigation is organized.
- HCL Experience API
  This shows developers how to provision, configure, and use the HCL Experience API with the HCL Digital Experience 9.5 platform.
- HCL Content Composer
  The HCL Content Composer delivers simplified processes for creating and managing Digital Experience site content.
- HCL Digital Asset Management
  HCL Digital Asset Management (DAM) adds a central platform to store and include rich media assets in Digital Experience site content to present engaging, consistently branded experiences across digital channels.
- The Woodburn Studio demo site
  The Woodburn Studio is a website that demonstrates the use of some of the popular HCL Digital Experience features.
- Reference
  View information that can help you use our product documentation including terms of use, trademarks, and more.

Development tools | HCL Digital Experience

Both the Web Experience Factory and IBM Rational Application Developer include functionality to help you develop exceptional web experiences for your mobile site visitors.

HCL Web Experience Factory

HCL Web Experience Factory creates applications with rich, interactive digital experiences for delivery on desktop browsers, smartphones, tablets, and other channels. This application development tool enables developers to build custom web portlets, widgets, and applications for HCL Digital Experience, and IBM WebSphere Application Server environments.

Web Experience Factory Designer is integrated into the Eclipse development environment.

Web Experience Factory Designer is a tool for developing Java™ 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) Web applications and portlets.

Web Experience Factory Designer is a plugin to Eclipse-based integrated development environments (IDEs). Working in the Web Experience Factory perspective in Eclipse, you create projects, for which you use builders and profile sets to develop models and generate the resulting Web applications from those models.

For more information about Web Experience Factory refer to the following resources:

IBM Rational® Application Developer

IBM Rational® Application Developer for WebSphere Software includes tools designed to help developers develop portlet applications. The portlet tools provide the following capabilities:

Portlet project support for the standard portlet API
Web perspective views and editors for developing portlets
Portlet project wizard to create basic portlets, Faces portlets, and Struts portlets
Editing and validation of the portlet deployment descriptor (portlet.xml).
Testing and debugging of portlets within the workbench
Testing and debugging of portlets on a remote machine
Visual tooling to insert portlet programming objects into JSP files using Page Designer.
Educational tutorials, available in the Tutorials Gallery

For additional information about IBM Rational Application Developer, refer to the IBM product pages at IBM Rational® Application Developer for WebSphere Software.