Best Practices

Adobe Engineering and Consulting teams have developed a comprehensive set of best practices for AEM developers. Adobe developer's adhere to these best practices as they develop core AEM product updates and customer code for customer implementations. 

Before you start your AEM development project, first review these best practices:

• Development Practices
• Content Architecture
• Software Architecture
• Coding Tips
• Code Pitfalls
• JCR Interaction
• OSGi Bundles

The following areas have documentation available specific to developing best practices: 

• WCM Author/WCM Admin
• Communities
• Tooling/HTL

Specific documents are described and linked to in the tables that follow.

For best practices on administering, deploying and maintaining, or authoring, see one of the following:

• Administering best practices
• Authoring best practices
• Deploying best practices

Web content management authoring and administration has some best practices outlined as follows:

AEM Communities simplifies the creation and management of on-premise Communities.

Some best practices for Communities are described here:

HTML Template Language (HTL) is a new HTML templating system, introduced with AEM 6.0. It replaces JSP and ESP as the preferred templating system of AEM.