Mastering Sling Dynamic Include (SDI) in AEM: Boost Performance Without Losing Dynamic Content

In Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), many pages are predominantly static, making caching mechanisms like dispatchers highly effective. However, challenges arise when certain page components need to display dynamic content.

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For instance, a news website’s homepage might require displaying region-specific headlines, but caching could cause the same news to appear across all regions.

To address such scenarios, AEM offers the Sling Dynamic Include (SDI) feature, which facilitates the dynamic inclusion of specific page elements.

Step 1 : Integrating Sling Dynamic Include with AEM 6.5

I won’t be covering the installation process for Sling Dynamic Include — as it is already well-documented in references [4] and [5].

Step 2: Configure Components for Dynamic Inclusion

After installing the SDI bundle, configure the desired components for dynamic inclusion by creating an OSGi configuration with the following parameters:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jcr:root xmlns:sling="http://sling.apache.org/jcr/sling/1.0"…