Adobe CQ5 for Developers - Introduction

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CQ5 Architecture – Technology Stack

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

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

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

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