AEM Community Articles (Tutorials and How To Articles)

Adobe Experience Manager Onboarding resources

Talks about On Boarding for AEM

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.

Creating your first Adobe Experience Manager 6.2 Project using Adobe Maven Archetype 10

Discusses how to create an AEM 6.2 Project using Adobe Maven Archetype 10

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.

Persisting Adobe Experience Manager data in a relational database

Discusses how to create an AEM application that is able to persist data in a relational database. In this article, the OSGi bundle persists data into MySQL. An Eclipse Plugin is used to create the OSGi bundle in this development article.

Integrating the JQuery Framework into Adobe Experience Manager

Discusses how to integrate the JQuery framework into AEM.

Injecting a DataSourcePool Service into an Adobe Experience Manager OSGi bundle

Discusses how to create an Adobe Experience Manager application that is able to query data from MySQL as well as persist data back to the database. This article creates an OSGi bundle and injects a DataSourcePool into it. In addition, discusses how to invoke an OSGi bundle operation from the client web page.

Creating custom Adobe Experience Manager email services

Discusses how to create a custom email service for AEM using the Java Mail API. In addition, discusses how to style the web client and invoke the custom email service operation.

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.

Creating Custom Carousel components for Adobe Experience Manager

Discusses how to create a custom carousel component for AEM. A carousel component displays images that can be retrieved from the Adobe Digital Asset Manager (DAM).

Integrating LiveCycle ES into Adobe Experience Manager applications

Discusses how to create an AEM OSGi bundle that invokes LiveCycle ES service operations. In this example, the PDFG service is invoked.

Creating a custom Adobe Experience Manager PDF service

Discusses how to create an Adobe Experience Manager custom service that is able to modify PDF documents. The custom service is developed by using Apache PDFBOX Java API.

Invoking Adobe Experience Manager Workflows using the AEM Java API

Discusses how to programmatically invoke an Adobe Experience Manager workflow using the AEM Java Workflow API.

Creating Adobe Experience Manager 5.5 bundles that consume web services

Discusses how to create and deploy an AEM 5.5 OSGi bundle that consumes a third-party web service. In addition, discusses how to invoke an OSGi bundle operation from the client web page. This article talks about creating Java Proxy classes using JAX-WS.

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.

Creating an Adobe Experience Manager web application that uses MySQL

Discusses how to create and deploy an AEM OSGi bundle that queries data from a relational database. In this example, MySQL is used. In addition, this article demonstrates how to build an OSGi bundle using Maven.

Packaging Adobe Experience Manager applications that contain an OSGi bundle

Discusses how to package an AEM application, including OSGi bundles.

Using JSONWriter objects to display Adobe Experience Manager data

Discusses how to create a dynamic AEM web client that is able to invoke an AEM OSGi bundle operation. This article uses a JSONWriter instance to pass data to the web client. In addition, discusses how to use a client library to style the web client.

Persisting Adobe Experience Manager 5 data in the Java Content Repository

Discusses how to create an AEM application that persists data in the JCR. This article uses an OSGi bundle that uses the JCR API to persist data.

Creating Adobe Experience Manager components that display Twitter data

Discusses how to obtain Twitter widget code and how to use it within an Adobe CQ component.

Creating gallery components that display digital assets stored in the Adobe Experience Manager DAM

Discusses how to create an AEM gallery component that retrieves digital assets from the AEM DAM.

Creating custom Adobe Experience Manager 5.6 commerce providers

Discusses how to create a custom Adobe CQ commerce provider using the commerce provider APIs.

Submitting Mobile Form Data to Adobe Experience Manager

Discusses how to create an AEM CQ mobile form that lets mobile users submit data to Adobe CQ. The mobile form is developed by using the JQuery Mobile API. The submitted data is stored in the Adobe JCR.

Using Sling Post Servlets to submit mobile data to Adobe Experience Manager

Discusses how to create a mobile application that uses a Sling Post Servlet to modify the Adobe JCR.

Submitting Adobe Experience Manager form data to Java Sling Servlets

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

Submitting data to the Adobe Experience Manager JCR using a .NET client application

Discusses how to create a C# .NET client application that modifies the Adobe CQ JCR.

Using AJAX requests to display Experience Manager users in a grid control

Discusses how to develop a CQ component that uses a data grid based on a CQ.Ext.grid.GridPanel. Also discusses how to populate the grid by using a CQ.Ext.data.Store instance.

Creating Adobe Experience Manager OSGi bundles that use the Query Builder API

Discusses how to create an OSGi bundle that contains the AEM 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 an operation exposed by the OSGi bundle and display the results in a grid control.

Querying and Persisting Adobe Experience Manager data into MySQL

Discusses how to create an Adobe Experience Manager application that is able to query data from MySQL as well as persist data back to the database. This article creates an OSGi bundle that uses the JDBC API to query and persist data. In addition, discusses how to invoke an OSGi bundle operation from the client web page.

Creating an Adobe Experience Manager DAM Image component

Discusses how to create a basic AEM DAM image component that displays JPG files located within the Adobe CQ DAM. The image component uses the AEM Query Builder API

Creating a custom Excel Service for Adobe Experience Manager

Discusses how to create an AEM OSGi bundle that accepts Excel files and extracts data from the spreadsheet and persists the data into the AEM JCR. The Java Excel API and the JCR API libraries are used in this development article.

Automating the process of uploading multiple digital assets to the Adobe Experience Manager DAM

Discusses how to develop a Java Swing application that posts multiple files to the AEM DAM. The Sling Servlet uses the AssetManager API to place the uploaded files into the AEM DAM

Displaying Adobe Experience Manager Data in a Chart

Discusses how to create an Adobe CQ application that is able to query data from the JCR and display the data in a chart.

Creating a Link Rewriter for Adobe Experience Manager

Discusses how to create a AEM Sling rewriter module using the Apache Sling Java API.

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.

Persisting Adobe Experience Manager data in the Java Content Repository

Discusses how to create an Adobe CQ application that persists data in the JCR. This article uses an OSGi bundle that uses the JCR API to persist data.

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 a HTML Parser Service for Adobe Experience Manager

Discusses how to create an AEM OSGi bundle that parses HTML using the JSOUP API.

Creating a Custom Reporting Service for Adobe Experience Manager

Discusses how to create an AEM OSGi bundle that generates Excel reports and persists them into the AEM JCR. The Java Excel API and the JCR API libraries are used in this development article.

Developing AEM OSGi bundles that use Jackrabbit UserManager APIs

Discusses how to create an Adobe Experience Manager OSGi bundle that is able to perform AEM user operations. The Jackrabbit UserManager API is used within the OSGi bundle.

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

Injecting a DataSourcePool into Adobe Experience Manager Sling Servlets

Discusses how to create an Apache Sling Servlet in which a DataSourcePool is injected.

Creating a custom Experience Manager component that uses a dialog grid

Discusses how to develop a CQ component that uses a data grid based on a CQ.Ext.grid.GridPanel. Also discusses how to populate the grid by using a CQ.Ext.data.Store instance.

Creating AEM Services using Apache CXF that consume web services

Discusses how to use Apache CXF to create Java proxy classes that consume a third-party web service. The Java proxy classes are used to create an OSGi bundle that is deployed to Adobe Experience Manager. In addition, discusses how to invoke an OSGi bundle operation from the client web page.

Creating an Experience Manager component that uses an editable dialog grid

Discusses how to develop a CQ component that uses an editable data grid based on a CQ.Ext.grid.EditorGridPanel. An editable grid lets AEM authors modify data located in the grid's cells.

Invoking Sling Servlets from Adobe Experience Manager xtype widgets

Discusses how to invoke the Sling Servlet by using a CQ.Ext.tree.TreeLoader instance.

Creating your first Adobe Experience Manager custom xtype

Discusses how to create an Adobe Experience Manager custom xtype

Posting LiveCycle ES Process Data to the Adobe Experience Manager JCR

Discusses how to create an Apache Sling Servlet that accepts LiveCycle ES process data that is posted from a custom document service component (DSC). The servlet also uses the JCR API to persist the process data in the JCR.

Creating Java Swing applications that posts files to AEM ClientLibs folders

Discusses how to create an Apache Sling Servlet that accepts a file posted from a Java Swing application. The Sling Servlet persists the file in the specified client libs folder. This article also discusses how to configure the Sling Servlet so that authentication is not required.

Posting Special Characters to Adobe Experience Manager

Discusses how to create an Apache Sling Servlet that accepts UTF-8 encoded data that contains special characters such as ®. The Sling Servlet persists data that contains the special characters in the AEM JCR. This article also discusses how to configure the Sling Servlet so that authentication is not required.

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.

Creating a Custom Adobe Experience Manager Dam Media Handler

Discusses how to create a custom DAM media handler that responds to digital assets being uploaded to the AEM DAM.

Creating your first Adobe Experience Manager LiveCopy Component

Discusses how to create an AEM component that be can used in a LiveCopy page.

Creating Adobe Experience Mananager components that displays DAM Assets in 3D

Discusses how to create an AEM component that displays DAM digital assets in 3D. An example use case for this component is a website for a company that sells cars. Instead of displaying static images of cars, you can display 3D images that a user can rotate and view the car from different views.

Creating Adobe Experience Manager Sling Servlets that invoke MBean operations

Discusses how to create an Apache Sling Servlet that invokes a MBean operation that returns the number of stale workflow items.

Developing Custom Experience Manager 5.5 Workflow Steps using Maven

Discusses how to create a custom AEM 5.5 Workflow step by using Maven.

Developing an Adobe Experience Manager application that uses FTP

Discusses how to create a custom File Transfer Protocol (FTP) AEM service.

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.

Creating Adobe Experience Manager 5.5 bundles that consume web services

Discusses how to create and deploy an AEM 5.5 OSGi bundle that consumes a third-party web service. In addition, discusses how to invoke an OSGi bundle operation from the client web page. This article talks about creating Java Proxy classes using JAX-WS.

Passing Values between Adobe Experience Manager Workflow Steps

Discusses how to develop an AEM custom workflow steps by using AEM Workflow Java APIs. The custom workflow steps set and read values. That is, one step in an AEM workflow can set a value and another step can read the value.

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.

Creating an AEM Touch UI Color Picker

Discusses how to create a color picker widget that can be used within a Touch UI dialog.

Using Jackrabbit UserManager APIs to retrieve group permissions

Discusses how to create an Adobe Experience Manager OSGi bundle that is able to retrieve group permissions for a specific JCR node. The Jackrabbit UserManager API is used within the OSGi bundle.

Retrieving AEM Workflow information using the Workflow API

Discusses how to use the Workflow APIs to retrieve workflow information.

Creating an AEM HTML Template Language tab movie component

Discusses how to develop a tab-based Sightly component that displays AEM DAM digital assets.

Creating an Adobe Experience Manager HTL Headline component

Discusses how to create an Adobe Experience Manager component that uses Sightly and a Sling Servlet to display headline news.

Developing a VanityPath Manager for Adobe Experience Manager

This AEM development community article discusses the VanityPath Manager tool.

Developing AEM components that display WordPress information

Discusses how to create a Java Sling Servlet that uses the WordPress API. Also talks about how to handle third-party API dependencies, which is an important concept to understand when developing AEM components.

Developing a custom Adobe Experience Manager Quiz Component

Discusses how to create an AEM Quiz component.

Getting Started with Adobe Experience Manager 6.1 Mobile Applications

Discusses how to get up and running with AEM 6.1 mobile applications and perform common tasks such as modifying, building, and deploying mobile applications.

Configuring the Adobe Experience Manager Touch UI RTE for in-line editor

Discusses how to customize the Touch UI RTE to use plug-ins such as style plug-ins

Validating Adobe Experience Manager Touch UI dialog values

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

Getting Started with the Translation Bootstrap Connector

Discusses how to create a Translation Bootstrap Connector for AEM 6.1.0.

Creating a HTML Template Language component that uses the AEM QueryBuilder API

Discusses how to create an Adobe Experience Manager component that uses both HTL and the QueryBuilder API.

Using the Java Query Object Model within Adobe Experience Manager

Discusses how to create an Adobe Experience Manager OSGi bundle that uses the JQOM API.

Reading Adobe Experience Manager OSGi Configuration Values

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

Creating a HTML Template Language and Sling Model DOM parser component

Discusses how to create an Adobe Experience Manager component that uses both Sightly and Sling Models together.

Creating an Adobe Experience Manager Custom Oak Login Module

Discusses how to create an Adobe Experience Manager OSGi bundle that contains an OakLogin module.

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.

Customizing the Adobe Experience Manager Sidekick to improve the activate process

Discusses how to customize the AEM sidekick.

Configuring Adobe Experience Manager 6 to use Apache Directory Service

Discusses how to configure AEM 6.x to work with an LDAP service. In this article, Apache Directory Service is used.

Using Jackrabbit UserManager APIs to create AEM Users and Groups

Discusses how to create an Adobe Experience Manager OSGi bundle that is able to create AEM users and groups. The Jackrabbit UserManager API is used within the OSGi bundle.

Creating an Adobe Experience Manager 6.1 personalized experience

Discusses how to display dynamic AEM 6.1 content based on user preference using campaigns, segments, and teasers.

Using Activation rules in Adobe Experience Manager web pages

Discusses how to use Activation rules (formally Dynamic Tag Management) in AEM 6.1 web pages.

Creating an Adobe Experience Manager Sling Post Processor

Discusses how to create a custom SlingPostProcessor that implements Interface SlingPostProcessor.

Creating a custom Adobe Experience Manager Dynamic Participant step

Provides details about how to develop a custom Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Dynamic Participant workflow step. A Dynamic Participant Step component is similar to Participant Step except the participant to which the workflow item is assigned is determined at run time.

Creating an Adobe Experience Manager personalized experience

Discusses how to display dynamic content based on user preference using campaigns, segments, and teasers.

Creating Adobe Experience Manager Components that use Nested Multifields

Creating Adobe Experience Manager Custom Column Components

Submitting data to Adobe Experience Manager 6.1 Sling Servlets that includes CSRF tokens

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.

Integrating Adobe Experience Manager 6.1 Components with Adobe Analytics

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.

Creating Adobe Experience Manager Components that use Standard Tag Libraries

Discusses how to create a custom AEM component that uses the JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL). In addition, discusses how to use a multifield data type that uses a custom xtype and how to read back the values using JSTL.

Packaging Adobe Experience Manager 6 applications

Discusses how to package an Adobe CQ application, including OSGi bundles.

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.

Creating Custom Tag Libraries for Adobe Experience Manager

Discusses how to create a custom AEM component that uses the JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL). In addition, discusses how to use a multifield data type that uses a custom xtype and how to read back the values using JSTL.

Creating an Adobe Experience Manager Custom Worflow Step with a dialog

Discusses how to create a custom workflow step that has a dialog that lets workflow authors enter parameter values used in the workflow. This article also discusses how to use Java code to retrieve those values at run-time. In addition, this article also demonstrates how to use the Delete Node step in an example workflow.

Passing JCR Node Objects to Adobe Experience Manager Custom Services

Discusses how to create an basic AEM Service that accepts a JCR node as an input parameter.

Creating an Adobe Experience Manager Event Listener that tags pages

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

Moving Adobe Experience Manager DAM Assets using the Granite AssetManager API

Discusses how to create a custom AEM service that is able to modify DAM assets using the com.adobe.granite.asset.api.AssetManager API.

Using Adobe Experience Manager Workflows

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

Building Secure Adobe Experience Manager Web Sites

Discusses how to build an AEM web site that reqires a user to login to view the content of the web site.

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 Interactive Video Components for Adobe Experience Manager

Discusses how to develop an AEM 6 interactive video component.

Creating Custom Data Importer Services for Adobe Experience Manager

Discusses how to create a custom AEM data importer service that is able to import data at specific intervals and using a cq:PollConfig mixin node.

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.

Creating an Adobe Experience Manager project using IntelliJ IDE

Discusses how setup and debug an AEM project by using IntelliJ.

Querying Adobe Experience Manager 6 data using the Sling getServiceResourceResolver method

Discusses how to use the Sling method named getServiceResourceResolver to obtain a Session instance.

Creating an Adobe Experience Manager Touch UI Tree component

Discusses how to create an AEM component that uses the Dynatree JQuery Plug-in to create an AEM component that displays data in a tree structure.

Creating Enterprise Mobile Applications for Adobe Experience Manager 6

Discusses how to download and build an AEM 6.0 mobile application.

Creating Logo Components for Adobe Experience Manager

Discusses how to create an AEM logo component that displays a company logo within an AEM web page. Included in this article is how to use an AbstractImageServlet.

Creating Adobe Experience Manager Touch UI components that consume web services

Discusses how to create an AEM 6 Touch UI component that invokes an OSGi bundle that contains Java proxy classes that consume a third-party web service.

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 Replication Event Handlers for Adobe Experience Manager

Discusses how to create a custom AEM replication event handler that responds to an AEM replication event, such as when an AEM web page is activated.

Downloading Adobe Experience Manager DAM Assets using Sling Servlets and the Query Builder API

Discusses how to create a custom Sling Servlet that uses the AEM QueryBuilder API to retrieve DAM assets. The Sling Servlet contains application logic that searches the AEM DAM for assets and places the collection of assets in a ZIP file. This article also discusses how to create a web page that invokes the Sling Servlet to download the ZIP file.

Using custom xtypes in Adobe Experience Manager 6 Touch UI

Discusses how to use a custom xtype to work in an AEM 6 Touch UI

Creating your first Adobe Experience Manager Touch UI component

Discusses how to develop an AEM 6 Touch UI component

Extending the Adobe Experience Manager Administrator User Interface

Discusses how to modify the AEM 6 administrator GUI using JCR nodes and properties. This article guides you through how to install AEM samples as a starting point and then further modify them.

Posting Adobe Experience Manager Form Data to Custom Services

Discusses how to create an AEM 6 adaptive form and post the data to a custom service defined within an OSGi bundle.

Searching for Adobe Experience Manager Tags using the TagManager API

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.