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Agenda Day 1:
• Overview of AEM.
• Installation of Author and Publish Instances.
• Views in AEM – Classic vs Touch UI.
• Technology Stack of AEM – Overview.
• AEM Consoles Walkthrough – DAM/CRXDE/TOOLS etc.

Overview
Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), is a comprehensive content management platform solution
for building websites, mobile apps and forms - making it easy to manage your marketing
content and assets
AEM is a component of the Adobe Marketing Cloud, which is a suite of solutions that integrate
with AEM such as Adobe Target, Adobe Analytics, Adobe Campaign, Adobe Social, Adobe
Primetime, Adobe Media Optimizer and Adobe Audience Manager. You can use AEM alone, or
in conjunction with one or more of the other components for a complete digital marketing
solution.

History
CQ5 is a version of Day CQ portfolio developed by a Swiss-based software company Day
Software in 2008, followed by Day CQ 3.5, 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2. Adobe Systems renamed Day CQ5 as
Adobe CQ5 after acquiring Day Software in 2010. Following the release of the fifth version of
CQ5 i.e., 5.5, Adobe renamed it as Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) in 2013 with a sixth
version AEM 5.6, Latest version is 6.4.

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Reference:
https://helpx.adobe.com/in/experience-manager/aem-previous-versions.html
Can obtain the documentation of previous versions.

Installation of Author and Publish Instances

a. Pre-requisite: Installed Java Platform, Standard Edition JDK - or other supported Java Virtual
Machines.
b. Go to command prompt and check whether Java installed/Configured in environmental
variables.
cmd->java -version
JAVA_HOME -> JDK path, path ->JDK/bin

Experience Manager Quick-start file (Standalone JAR or web-application deployment WAR – Without
build in servlet engine / server).

Naming Convention before installing AEM instance:

When first installing AEM or CQ, the name of the quickstart jar can be used to determine whether the
instance uses the author run mode or the publish run mode.

The naming convention to use for CQ 5.6 and earlier is:

cq-<optional-version-or-identifier>-<standard-run-mode>-<port-number>

The naming convention to for AEM 5.6.1 and later is:

aem-<optional-version-or-indentifier>-<standard-run-mode>-<port-number>

As an example, the quickstart jar for an AEM 6.0 instance running as an author instance with the port of
4502 could be named:

aem-6.0.0.20140515-author-4502.jar or aem-author-p4502

Reference: https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/kb/RunModeSetUp.html

Different Ways to start AEM Instance:

1. Double Click on Jar file.

2. Java command to execute Jar.

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java -Xms512m -Xmx2048m -XX:MaxHeapSize=1024m -Xdebug -

Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=30303 -jar AEM-author-p4502.jar

Note: As we know Java allocate objects at heap area, some time it happens we get the ‘Out of memory’
exception, using above command helps in allocating the extra space to heap so that we can avoid
memory exceptions.

Also, we can bind the debug port, it helps in debugging the issues with Java Bundles/Code.

3. Once the file is extracted using option-1, it can be started by going

crx-quickstart folder -> bin -> Start.bat (Unix compatible command also can be found)

Stop.bat ->Stop file.

Webserver - AEM

Once AEM instance is started, A webserver is also get started at the back end.

Apache Jetty - Internal implementation of AEM comes default. – It’s a servlet engine and HTTP Server.

More info: https://www.eclipse.org/jetty/

If needed, different application server can be configured like JBoss/WebLogic – AEM War file is required.

Author and Publish Instances

author

Author is usually located behind the internal firewall as it is the environment where you and your
colleagues will input your content and administrate the system

publish

This environment holds the content you have made available to visitors to your website; be it public, or
within your intranet

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Views in AEM.

Classic UI -> http://localhost:4502/welcome.html

Legacy UI, Extended JS implementation, Not compatible for devices i.e. Unresponsive

Touch UI -> http://localhost:4502/aem/start.html

Touch -> Coral UI and Granite UI based, responsive and mobile first.

WCM Authoring UI mode Service. (Can change the behavior while opening the page in content or site
admin), Modes (TOUCH & CLASSIC)

ROOT Mapping: /welcome.html /projects.html

Technology Stack of AEM – Overview.

• JCR (Content Repository API for Java): It can be defined as the specifications for
accessing content repository using JAVA API in uniform manner. So, JCR is “type of
repository”. CRX is an Adobe implementation of JCR. Similarly, Apache Jackrabbit is an
external implementation of JCR by apache.

Some important Points :

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Example of traditional Databases – Oracle/SQL Server – Table Concept.

A JCR is an object database that provides various services for storing, accessing, and managing content.

In addition to a hierarchically structured storage, common services of a content repository are

versioning, access control, full-text searching, and event monitoring (JCR Observation Framework - Event
Handling (Modified / Added etc.)

The JCR provides a generic application data store for structured hierarchical data, plus observation,
versioning and full text search.

JCR stores data in form of (Nodes -> Properties (Key/Value) ), it forms the hierarchical data model.

• Entire Site data gets stored in form of Node and Properties.

• Every File, Folder, Image treats as a node. To differentiate, there is an jcr: primaryType
[sling:folder, nt:folder, etc.]
• Each node will be having jcr: primaryType property and every page would be having a child node
jcr:content, every page will be of type cq: page under content.
• Open JCR node, and see in property console (Protected, Mandatory, Multiple, Auto Created]
• Data is stored in form of TAR (Tape Archive files. (Unix compressed files – Non-readable format)
• Data will be lost if any segment is deleted.
• Tar Location under crx-quickstart/repository/segments

To view the repository:

http://localhost:4502/crx/de

http://localhost:4502/crx/explorer

Sling:
Apache Sling is a web application framework for content-centric applications, using a Java Content
Repository, such as Apache Jackrabbit or CRX, to store and manage content:

• is based on REST principles to provide easy development of content-oriented applications.

• is embedded within CQ5.
• is used to process HTTP rendering and data-storage requests which assemble, render and send
the content to a client.
• maps Content objects to Components (which render them and process incoming data).
• comes with both server-side and AJAX scripting support.
• can be used with a range of scripting languages, including JSP, ESP and Ruby.
• started as an internal project of Day Management.
• has been contributed to the Apache Software Foundation.

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OSGI
CQ5 is built within an application framework which is based on the OSGi Service Platform.

OSGI Technology:

• “is the dynamic module system for Java™.”

• “provides the standardized primitives that allow applications to be constructed from small,
reusable and collaborative components. These components can be composed into an
application and deployed.”
• OSGi bundles can contain compiled Java code, scripts, content that is to be loaded in the
repository, and configuration or additional files, as needed.

AEM Consoles Walkthrough:

CQ5 is made available through various specialized web consoles:
• Websites for creating and managing multiple websites.
• Digital Assets for organizing various digital assets.
• Campaigns for managing marketing campaigns.
• Community for moderating content of the social network.
• Inbox for managing your inbox items.
• Users for managing user accounts and groups.
• Tools for maintaining and configuring the CQ5 system.
• Tagging for organizing tags and their namespaces.

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