Adobe CQ5 for Developers - Introduction
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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.
Adobe CQ5 for Developers - Introduction
- 1. © 2013 Tekno Point Consulting. All Rights Reserved.www.teknopoint.us Adobe AEM aka CQ5 Getting Started and More Dr. Yash Mody, PhD Tekno Point Consulting www.teknopoint.us | www.teknopoint.in
- 2. © 2013 Tekno Point Consulting. All Rights Reserved.www.teknopoint.us • 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
- 3. © 2013 Tekno Point Consulting. All Rights Reserved.www.teknopoint.us 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
- 4. © 2013 Tekno Point Consulting. All Rights Reserved.www.teknopoint.us 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
- 5. © 2013 Tekno Point Consulting. All Rights Reserved.www.teknopoint.us 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
- 6. © 2013 Tekno Point Consulting. All Rights Reserved.www.teknopoint.us 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
- 7. © 2013 Tekno Point Consulting. All Rights Reserved.www.teknopoint.us JCR Terms Node • It’s the structure Properties • And the content. Key/Value(s) format • API
- 8. © 2013 Tekno Point Consulting. All Rights Reserved.www.teknopoint.us 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
- 9. © 2013 Tekno Point Consulting. All Rights Reserved.www.teknopoint.us Apache Sling REST URL – From JCR Protocol – HTTP Sling HTTP Request/ Response POST handler
- 10. © 2013 Tekno Point Consulting. All Rights Reserved.www.teknopoint.us Too many API’s adapTo() Apache Sling JCR OSGi WCM Workflows CQ WCM adaptTo()
- 11. © 2013 Tekno Point Consulting. All Rights Reserved.www.teknopoint.us CQ5 Architecture – Technology Stack
- 12. © 2013 Tekno Point Consulting. All Rights Reserved.www.teknopoint.us 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
- 13. © 2013 Tekno Point Consulting. All Rights Reserved.www.teknopoint.us 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
- 14. © 2013 Tekno Point Consulting. All Rights Reserved.www.teknopoint.us • CQ Sites– http://localhost:4502/siteadmin • CRX – http://localhost:4502/crx/explorer • Felix – http://localhost:4502/system/console • CRXDE – http://localhost:4502/crxde Environments