Experience Management

When you are writing Sling Models code, you are constantly invoking injectors for the objects you use in your Sling Models class. There are eight standard injectors Sling provides out of the box currently (based on version 1.3.9.r1784960 of org.apache.sling.models.impl installed in AEM 6.3). But sometimes you may find the eight injectors don’t meet a […]

As you may know, unit testing and test-driven development (TDD) are important for making sure your code complies with the design, is scalable among your team, and provides automated regression. Often times, the JUnit test and component back-end Java code come hand in hand. An AEM developer who writes the component logic is also responsible […]

This post will demonstrate how to use Grunt and Grunt plugins with AEM archetype projects. The purpose of front-end technologies integrated with AEM projects is to automate various tasks like Sass lint, compile Sass into CSS, minify CSS, merge JS files, JS error checking, and minify JS. With the use of front-end technologies like Node, […]

Why Digital Asset Management As companies undergo digital transformation, and look to become an ‘experience business’ that delivers second to none experiences to their customers and drives brand loyalty, there’s more pressure on marketing teams to create compelling, interactive and visually appealing content. With content in such high demand, marketing leaders seek to streamline the use of […]

Looking back at Adobe Experience Manager’s (AEM) component development path (especially if you started from 6.0 or earlier), you likely have used a variety of ways to provide back-end logic to components. Beginning with JSP (or even scriptlets), to abstract component Java class with page context or binding objects, to Adobe’s WCMUse or your custom implementation of […]

When implementing a new digital marketing platform, many organizations struggle with how to design their vision so it can be easily and sustainably implemented using modern digital marketing technologies. Here are five key tips that I believe will help organizations looking to implement their digital marketing vision, ensure that their creative and design process yields […]

Recently I was investigating a response timeout issue in an Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) implementation. The AEM application serves content both to the browser and portal application. The portal system makes a request to AEM, and AEM processes that request and returns the request in JSON format. As per the architecture, the response from AEM should reach the portal within five seconds. […]

That Job Many projects have that job. You know the one. It’s every Sys Admin’s nightmare, but it performs some critical task for the website. It also takes several hours to run and has the occasional tendency to do bad things like… take down a server. What if I told you there’s a way to make that […]

AEM Core WCM Components (commonly referred to as core components) are a set of production-ready components Adobe introduced with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) 6.3. They are open source and delivered over Github, so the entire AEM developer community is welcome to provide feedback and contribute to the code base (cue applause). These components use the same […]

Here’s the case: Once again our ticketing site needs an update, the calendar moved to a new location, and our new season starts soon. Our developer can make the changes, but this happens all the time. We need a better solution. Fortunately one exists! In the past there were two solutions for a TNEW template; […]

Recently, we were investigating a CPU performance spike issue with an Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) publish server. After some research, we came across logs that indicated indexing had caused the CPU spike. Adobe Experience Manager is more than just a content management system or an application to serve content to the user’s request. AEM includes more powerful functionality, […]

What happened? One of the best assists for a CMS is now unavailable for Umbraco, and just before we got the GridEditor, so now everything is more complicated! There is an answer, pick up all those dreams of pretty grids and components and take a look at factories. Factories take the place of GlassMapper and […]