adobe aem cq5 - developer introduction

Adobe AEM aka CQ5 Ge/ng Started and More

Dr. Yash Mody, PhD

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IntroducAon to CQ5 The way developers like it

•  Web Content Management That’s where we create websites and its content

•  Digital Asset Management All the digital media goes here like images, documents, movies et. Al.

•  Campaign Management CreaAng campaigns, mailers and teasers using the same content.

•  Workflow Automate the processes. Add users, scripts and other processes. Yes can be triggered

•  Social CollaboraAon Calendar, Customer raAngs, Forum, Comments and the other usual stuff (FB, TwiPer)

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Ge/ng Started

•  Current Version – 5.6 Now called as the Adobe Experience Manager

•  Prereqs – Java v1.7, 4 GB RAM(min), CRXDE And that’s apart from a valid jar and license.

•  InstallaAon is double clicking a JAR No I am not kidding

•  Set up as Author That’s where all the content is generated. Called the run-‐mode


Key Technologies

•  OSGi The Universal Middleware. Container for Bundles. Uses Apache Felix

•  JCR Java content Repository. Everything is content. ImplementaAon used -‐ CRX

•  Apache Sling The REST framework responsible for delivering content form JCR

•  CQ WCM API Pages, Templates, Components, Workflows and everything else CQ is made up of

•  EXTJs •  Sencha JavaScript framework. Used for UI


Key Terms

•  Template The Blue print to make a page

•  Pages This is what the Author creates

•  Components Part of templates and this is where you will spend a lot of your Ame. JSP, JS, CSS, i18n, ExtJs

•  Dialog User Interface to collect informaAon from an Author. Custom created. ExtJs

•  Widgets Each line item in a dialog. Sits inside a widgetcollecAon. ExtJs

•  Workflow The more I tell you the more I scare you. Model a workflow, Run it, See the inbox, Step ahead.. Phew


OSGi

•  Bundles Your Java Code. Basically a Jar with some meta informaAon

•  Services This is what you will use and write for other bundles

•  Blah Blah Modules, RunAme and Security. Class Loader example


JCR Terms

•  Node •  It’s the structure •  ProperAes •  And the content. Key/Value(s) format

•  API


JCR Structure ID FN LN

1 A A

2 B b

Employee

A FN:A

LN:B

B FN:A

LN:B Repository Model with mulAple workspaces

Structured Data

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Apache Sling

•  REST •  URL – From JCR •  Protocol – HTTP •  SlingHTTPRequest/Response •  POST handler


Too many API’s adaptTo()

•  Apache Sling •  JCR •  OSGi •  WCM •  Workflows •  CQ WCM •  adaptTo()


CQ5 Architecture – Technology Stack


Other EssenAals

•  Publish and Author instances •  The 4502 secret

Default port •  Sidekick & Content Finder

On the Authoring Page. CF is used to add content (from DAM) and Sidekick to add components and more •  The PARAGRAPH SYSTEM

The reason CQ is selling :P Provides ability to drag and drop components. Making it easy to customize templates


Deployment

•  Dispatcher CQ is a powerful rendering engine built on powerful standards. CQ runs with a webserver for content delivery. Makes Sense as well

•  Publish – Author relaAonship ReplicaAon Agent. Reverse ReplicaAon Agent

•  Load Balancing and Clustering Lives in clusters. Single instance is a cluster of 1


Environments

•  CQ Sites– hPp://localhost:4502/siteadmin •  CRX – hPp://localhost:4502/crx/explorer •  Felix – hPp://localhost:4502/system/console •  CRXDE – hPp://localhost:4502/crxde
