AEM Community Articles (Tutorials and How To Articles)

Creating your first Adobe Experience Manager Service using an Maven Archetype project

Discusses how to create an basic AEM Service that uses a Maven Adobe Archetype project.

Integrating custom Adobe Experience Manager Component with third-party libraries

Discusses how to integrate a third-party library with AEM. In this example, Google MAP APIs are used.

Creating your first AEM HTML Template Language component

Discusses how to develop an AEM 6 Touch UI component using the AEM HTML template language.

Integrating Adobe Experience Manager with Adobe Analytics and Target using DTM

Discusses how to create an AEM 6.1 component that is integrated with Adobe Analytics. In addition, discusses how to configure AEM to connect to Adobe Analytics, setup the Adobe Analytics framework, and map component variables to Adobe Analytics variables.

Using Sling APIs to retrieve content from the Adobe Experience Manager Repository

Discusses how to programmatically retrieve AEM resources from the Java Content Repository (JCR) using Sling APIs. Also discusses how to use the adaptTo method to convert an AEM resource to another type.

Programmatically Accessing Adobe Experience Manager Content using the JCR API

Discusses how to programmatically manipulate the Adobe CQ JCR using the JCR API. This article manipulates the JCR by using an external Java console application.

Submitting Adobe Experience Manager form data to Java Sling Servlets

Discusses how to create a Java Sling Servlet using Apache Java APIs.

Querying Adobe Experience Manager Data using the JCR API

Discusses how to create an Adobe CQ application that is able to query data from the JCR. This article creates an OSGi bundle that uses the JCR Query API to query and filter data. In addition, discusses how to invoke an OSGi bundle operation from the client web page.

Uploading files to Adobe Experience Manager DAM using AssetManager API

Discusses how to create an AEM application that lets users select image files and upload them to a Java Sling Servlet. Once uploaded, the Servlet uses the AssetManager API to store the image file in the Adobe CQ DAM.

Creating Adobe Experience Manager bundles that invoke third party Restful web services

Discusses how to create and deploy an Adobe CQ OSGi bundle that consumes data from a third-party Restful web service. In addition, discusses how to invoke an OSGi bundle operation from the client web page.

Developing Java Swing Applications that displays Adobe Experience Manager Data

Discusses how to create a Java Swing application that queries the AEM JCR. The Java application can display JCR data based on a score property and export the JCR result set to Excel.

Creating Adobe Experience Manager multifield components that support drag and drop and custom xtypes

Discusses how to create an Adobe Experience Manager multi-field component that supports a rich text editor and lets an AEM author drag images from the Content Finder and drop them into the component.

Dynamically updating Adobe Experience Manager custom xtype fields

Talks about how to dynamically update xtype fields

Creating Event Handlers for Adobe Experience Manager

Discusses how to create a custom AEM event handler that responds to JCR events, such as when a node is created.

Creating custom AEM workflow steps that send email messages

Discusses how to develop an AEM 5.6 (or higher) custom workflow step by using AEM Workflow Java APIs. The custom workflow step sends email messages.

Programmatically Accessing Adobe Experience Manager Content using the JCR API

Discusses how to programmatically manipulate the Adobe CQ JCR using the JCR API. This article manipulates the JCR by using an external Java console application.

Dynamically updating Adobe Experience Manager TouchUI Dialog Select Fields

Discusses how to create an AEM Touch UI component that has a Touch UI dialog where a drop-down field is dynamically updated with data returned from an AJAX call.

Validating Adobe Experience Manager Touch UI dialog values

Discusses how to write application logic that validates user input into a dialog field

Reading Adobe Experience Manager OSGi Configuration Values

Discusses how to create an Adobe Experience Manager OSGi bundle that reads configuration values.

Using Query Builder API from within an Adobe Experience Manager 6.1 Sling Servlet

Discusses how to create a custom Sling Servlet that uses the Query Builder API. This OSGi operation contains application logic to search the AEM repository. This article also discusses how to create a web page that invokes a GET operation and displays the results in a grid control.

Populating AEM Component Dialog fields using JSON data returned by Sling Servlets

Discusses how to create a custom AEM component that uses JSON returned by a sling servlet to populate drop-down fields located in the component's dialog.

Using Event Handlers in Adobe Experience Manager Touch UI Components

Discusses how to build a Touch UI dialog that contains event handlers

Working with Sling Models in Adobe Experience Manager

Discusses how to work with Sling Models within an AEM project. Sling Models let you map Java objects to Sling resources.

Using Adobe Experience Manager Workflows

Discusses common AEM workflow concepts and tasks, including how to create a workflow, invoke it, and monitor it.

Invoking Adobe Experience Manager Sling Servlets using Apache HTTP APIs

Discusses how to create an AEM service that can invoke an AEM Sling Servlet using Apache HTTP APIs.

Creating an Adobe Experience Manager project using Eclipse IDE

Discusses how setup and debug an AEM project by using Eclipse. Code between Eclipse and the AEM JCR is synchronized using vault.

Using Granite DataSource objects to populate AEM Touch UI objects

Discusses how to use a Granite DataSource object to populate a drop-down control in the dialog of a Touch UI component.

Creating your first Adobe Experience Manager Touch UI component

Discusses how to develop an AEM 6 Touch UI component

Integrating Adobe Experience Manager with Adobe Analytics and Target using DTM

Discusses how to create an AEM 6.1 component that is integrated with Adobe Analytics. In addition, discusses how to configure AEM to connect to Adobe Analytics, setup the Adobe Analytics framework, and map component variables to Adobe Analytics variables.

Working with Adobe Experience Manager Content Fragments

Discusses how to work with AEM 6.2 content fragments

Getting Started with Adobe Experience Manager and OSGi bundles

Discusses OSGi concepts and provides information about the AEM Eclipse plug-in to create an AEM project.

Developing HTML Template Language Components that search for Adobe Experience Manager Content Tags

Discusses how to develop an AEM 6 Touch UI component that uses HTL and Tag Manager API

Working with Sling Models in Adobe Experience Manager 6.2

Discusses how to develop an AEM 6 .2 application that uses Sling Models

Creating custom Adobe Experience Manager 6.2 ecommerce providers

Discusses how to develop an AEM 6.2 eCommerce provider using the AEM eCommerce API