This document provides an introduction to Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), formerly known as CQ5. It discusses key aspects of AEM including its use of OSGi and JCR technologies, templates and components for authoring content, and workflows for automating processes. The document also provides an overview of installing and setting up an AEM author instance, as well as related terms.

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Adobe AEM aka CQ5
Getting Started and More
Dr. Yash Mody, PhD
Tekno Point Consulting
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• That’s where we create websites and its content
Web Content Management
• All the digital media goes here like images, documents, movies et. Al.
Digital Asset Management
• Creating campaigns, mailers and teasers using the same content.
Campaign Management
• Automate the processes. Add users, scripts and other processes. Yes can be triggered
Workflow
• Calendar, Customer ratings, Forum, Comments and the other usual stuff (FB, Twitter)
Social Collaboration
Introduction to CQ5
The way developers like it

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Current Version – 5.6
Now called as the Adobe Experience Manager
Pre-requisites – Java v1.7, 4 GB RAM
(min), CRXDE
And that’s apart from a valid jar and license
Installation 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
Getting Started

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Key Technologies
OSGi
• The Universal Middleware. Container for Bundles. Uses Apache Felix
JCR
• Java content Repository. Everything is content. Implementation 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

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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
time. JSP, JS, CSS, i18n, ExtJs
Dialog
• User Interface to collect
information from an Author.
Custom created. ExtJs
Widgets
• Each line item in a dialog. Sits
inside a widget collection. ExtJs
Workflow
• The more I tell you the more I scare
you. Model a workflow, Run it, See
the inbox, Step ahead.. Phew

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OSGi
Bundles
• Your Java Code. Basically a Jar with some meta information
Services
• This is what you will use and write for other bundles
Blah Blah
• Modules, Runtime and Security. Class Loader example

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JCR Terms
Node
• It’s the structure
Properties
• And the content. Key/Value(s) format
• API

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JCR Structure ID FN LN
1 A A
2 B b
Employee
A
FN:A
LN:B
B
FN:A
LN:BRepository Model with multiple workspaces
Structured Data
Node Data

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Apache Sling
REST
URL – From JCR
Protocol – HTTP
Sling HTTP Request/ Response
POST handler

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Too many API’s
adapTo()
Apache Sling
JCR
OSGi
WCM
Workflows
CQ WCM
adaptTo()

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CQ5 Architecture – Technology Stack

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Other Essentials
Publish and Author instances
• Default port
The 4502 secret
• On the Authoring Page. CF is used to add content (from DAM) and
Sidekick to add components and more
Sidekick & Content Finder

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Deployment
• CQ is a powerful rendering engine built on
powerful standards. CQ runs with a webserver
for content delivery. Makes Sense as well
Dispatcher
• Replication Agent. Reverse Replication Agent
Publish –
Author
relationship
• Lives in clusters. Single instance is a cluster
of 1
Load
Balancing and
Clustering

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