Thinking about an upgrade from CQ to AEM and wondering what will break first? You are not alone. Teams still on CQ5 are staring at AEM 6 and the shiny new Touch UI, Oak, and a different way to think about content and code. The press releases make it sound…
Category: Technical Implementation
Platform-specific development and implementation patterns. Deep technical coverage of AEM, Docker environments, Edge Delivery Services, and enterprise platform development.
Sling Models: From Scriptlets to POJOs
Description: Sling Models: From Scriptlets to POJOs: Apache Sling from a practitioner’s perspective with timeless lessons. A quick chat in the team room Me: Why is there Java in this JSP that looks like spaghetti? Teammate: It started small. A getter here, a null check there. Then a deadline hit….
Versioning and Queries in JCR
If you spend your days near a Java Content Repository you already know two topics keep coming back in standups. Versioning and queries. You either broke a branch of content and need to rewind time, or you wrote a query that looks smart but eats the CPU for breakfast. After…
AEM Workflows for Real Editorial Teams
AEM workflows are sold as the safety net for content. In real newsrooms and brand teams, they can also be the bottleneck. The trick is turning the out of the box models into something editors actually use when the clock is ticking. Today’s piece is about Adobe CQ5 slash AEM…
ClientLibs and Front-End Pipelines in AEM
Ship small. Bundle smart. Let AEM do the heavy lifting without getting in your way. I spent the week jumping between Adobe CQ code and front end tools, and it reminded me why AEM ClientLibs are still the simplest way to keep pages quick and tidy. Grunt just hit 0.4…
Dispatcher Caching in AEM
Cache is the feature you only notice when it fails. When it works, nobody calls at 3 AM. Dispatcher caching in AEM CQ is not fancy. It is a brick wall that takes the hit before your publish boxes do. We just came out of a launch week where the…
Sling Models and HTL: Clean Templates
Creation date: 2012-06-25T00:28:14 Dev: Why do our CQ components turn into spaghetti the moment we touch JSPs? Me: Because we cram content logic, presentation, and null checks in the same file. We can do better. Picture clean templates that only show markup. Picture simple Java classes that hold the data….
OSGi Services in Sling: Clean Boundaries
OSGi Services in Sling: Clean Boundaries. Apache Sling from a practitioner’s perspective with lessons that stick. If you are building content apps on top of Sling and Jackrabbit, keeping logic in tidy units pays off like compound interest. Dialogue intro Dev: My Sling servlet is a thousand lines. It touches…
Sling Resource Resolution: URLs as a Feature
What if your URLs were not an afterthought in your app but the main character from the very first line of code. What if links shaped your content model instead of getting patched at the end with regex and a bag of filters. If your brain nodded there is a…
Access Control in JCR Repositories
Dev: So we can share everything in the content repo and trust the app to hide stuff, right? Me: That is how you wake up on call at three in the morning. Put the locks in the repository. Let the app ride on top. Admin: Which locks? LDAP knows groups….