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Developer tools

Learn more about the developer tools and features of HCL Portal, including HCL Web Experience Factory Designer and DXClient, WSRP and more.

  • DXClient
    DXClient is a command line tool featuring a single, unified interface to all HCL DX automation and CI/CD-related tasks.
  • HCL DX Extensions
    The HCL DX Extensions feature for Visual Studio Code Editor provides a user interface experience for DX developers during the development life cycle. Through this extension, DX developers can do shorter coding cycles between local editing events to server rendering and validation.
  • 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.
  • Web Services for Remote Portlets services
    By using the Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) standard, HCL Digital Experience can provide portlets, applications, and content as WSRP services.
  • Dojo Toolkit
    HCL Digital Experience contains an instance of the Dojo Toolkit, a JavaScript library that is based on the Dojo Toolkit.
  • Web Developer Toolkit
    The Web Developer toolkit for HCL Digital Experience provides the ability to sync themes, content, and script portlets (also known as Script Applications).
  • Extending DX class path
    There are several options to add the general code that is not part of an EAR or WAR files.
  • Reference documents
    Reference copy of API, SPI, Javadoc, and more, for HCL Digital Experience 8.5 and 9.0.