Posts Tagged ‘AEM’

Why is this needed? It may just be me, but I’ve found it incredibly common for clients to request an unauthenticated URL to view in-progress pages within an AEM Author instance.  The ask makes a lot of sense, as often those who approve content will often just want to give a cursory glance, and not […]

One frequent use case most of the Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Full Stack Developers would have come across is migrating content from different applications into AEM. Data from source applications can come in various formats like JSON, XML, CSV, etc. When the source file format is JSON, in order to transform the source data to […]

Let’s talk about extract, transform, and load, also known as ETL. If you are an AEM professional, this is something you have previously dealt with. It could be something along the lines of products, user bios, or store locations. The extract and transform parts may differ depending on your source and requirements. The loading part […]

After the introduction of AEM Core Components, custom component development has been drastically changed. In some use cases, there is zero customization and core components can be directly used for authoring. Even in those situations, the custom component is needed. It can be quickly built by extending the existing core components. Thus, the development cost […]

The first thing I learned as an AEM developer was mvn clean install -P autoInstallBundle. The second thing was how to debug a remote Java process. The first allowed me to deploy updates I made to the bundle. The second allowed me to step through and debug the code. This was the normal cadence. Since […]

In my blog Writing Less Java Code in AEM with Sling Models, I talked about writing less code using Sling Models. I followed that up with Writing Less Java Code in AEM with Sling Models & Lombok. I talked about code generators helping in saving time by not writing redundant codes. You could say I […]

AEM is a robust platform full of useful APIs and frameworks available at our disposal. Understanding what’s in the box will help us write less code. In my previous blog post, I covered one of the most used frameworks, Sling Models. Plus, I showed a real-world example with multi-fields. For this blog post, we will […]

Content as a Service has revolutionized content management systems in the delivery of content.  Content is created once, independent of channels, and delivered without additional custom application code.  This saves a lot of time in the creation and maintenance of content and reduces the cost of operation. Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) has out-of-the-box (OOTB) features […]

One of the strong features of Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) is creating UI content using the content authoring capability with Core Components.  As contents are created, they are stored in a Jackrabbit Oak repository as resources, which is then fetched and rendered as HTML content.  When out-of-the-box content authoring components do not suit the needs […]

Implementing static code analysis might seem like a daunting task. In some cases, this may be true depending on logistics, timing, and other factors. There is however a quick and easy way to implement it for AEM projects. Using open-source tools such as CheckStyle, SpotBugs, PMD, and JaCoCo you will pay nothing and reap all the […]

The AEM Forms product comes with many out-of-the-box (OOTB) UI components that allow you to build meaningful forms for your business; the forms can be used to collect data, like applications, surveys, and consent authorization.  But, these OOTB UI form components come with default UI styling.  When we integrate AEM Forms into a website, the […]

Managing your AEM repository size growth can be challenging for numerous reasons. What’s more, it may suddenly start to grow unexpectedly and fill up space in the assigned drive of your AEM application. In this post, I want to share a few AEM utilities & methods which can help you to not only manage the […]