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Maciej Majchrzak / @majchrzak_m


Open source in AEM

Adobe Experience Manager:

– Apache Sling

– Apache Felix

– Apache Jackrabbit Oak

– ...

Community

– ?


The Project

Chocolate Company

Marketing Platform


Project Scope

– Multi-channel, multi-lingual website built on Adobe Experience Manager

– Integration with internal news platform (dynamic content)

– Non-functional testing

– Platform set-up

– Deployment

– Maintenance


Meet your team!


Development

Challenge #1 – Team:

– Getting up to speed

– Upskilling inexperienced


Development

ACS AEM Samples

http://adobe-consulting-services.github.io/acs-aem-samples/


ACS AEM Samples

Your benefits:

Easily accessible training

Code references and guidelines

Suitable for beginners and more advanced


Development

Challenge #2 – Code:

– Organization / structure

– Separation of concerns

– Reusablility

– Simplicity

– Readability + testability = maintainability


Development – Framework

Neba

http://neba.io

Slice

http://cognifide.github.io/slice


Neba

Your benefits:

Power of Spring

• Spring MVC apps with ease

• Integrations

• Dependency injection

Advanced mapping of Sling resources into Java objects

Easily testable and clean code


Neba


Slice

Your benefits:

Lightweight and powerful dependency injection

Easily testable and maintainable code

Improved code design and re-use

Advanced mapping of Sling resources into Java objects


Slice


Development

Challenge #3 – Dynamic content:

– How to include dynamic content (component) on a page?

– How to cache pages with dynamic content?


Development – Dynamic Content

Sling Dynamic Include

http://cognifide.github.io/sling-dynamic-include


Sling Dynamic Include

Your benefits:

Don’t bother dynamic components anymore

Significantly reduced implementation effort

Very simple configuration

Fast and efficient solution for pages with

dynamic fragments


Dispatcher optimization

Also check: Dispatcher Flush Rules

http://adobe-consulting-services.github.io/acs-aem-commons/features/dispatcher-flush-rules.html


Development

Challenge #4 – Quality:

– How we are sure that it does what it should?

– How to run tests automatically?

– How to run test often?


Development – Functional Testing

Prosper

https://github.com/Citytechinc/prosper


Prosper

Your benefits:

Lightweight integration tests – increased value

• Quick execution

• Can be run often

Powerful yet easy to write and read – BDD-style

Simplified maintenance of tests

Combine with Jacoco/Cobertura for test coverage


Prosper


Go Live?


Go Live

Challenge #5 – AEM setup:

– User, groups and permissions

– Authorable error pages

– Domains and content mappings

– Sitemaps

– ...


Go Live – User, Groups & Permissions

ACTool

http://github.com/Netcentric/accesscontroltool


ACTool

Your benefits:

No need for clicking and manual ACL application

You can share them across multiple environments with ease

You can version config files in source repository


Other tools

Authorable error pages:

– Error Page Handler

– http://adobe-consulting-services.github.io/acs-aem-commons/features/errorpagehandler.html

Sitemaps:

– Simple Sitemap generator

– http://adobe-consulting-services.github.io/acs-aem-commons/features/simple-sitemap.html

Domains and content mappings:

– Carty

– http://cognifide.github.io/carty


Go Live

Challenge #6 – Security & Performance (load) tests

– How are we sure that our AEM instance is secure?

– How do we know we can handle assumed traffic?


Go Live – Security Testing

SecureCQ

https://github.com/Cognifide/SecureCQ


SecureCQ

Your benefits:

Security audit before go-live

Easy to extend by project-specific tests

Easy to run

https://github.com/adobe-marketing-cloud/

cq-java-securecq-maven-plugin


Go Live – Performance Testing

– No AEM-specific tools

– Other tools:

• JMeter (http://jmeter.apache.org/)

• The Grinder (http://grinder.sourceforge.net/)


Go Live!


Maintenance

Challenge #7 – Functional Changes:

– Content manipulation after changing application behaviour


Maintenance – Content Manipulation

AEM Groovy Console

https://github.com/Citytechinc/cq-groovy-console


AEM Groovy Console

Your benefits:

Run arbitrary Groovy code on AEM instance:

Migrate content with ease

Extensible

Debug with ease


Maintenance

Challenge #8 – Debugging

– How to reproduce a bug „safely”?

– Moving content from one environment to another


Maintenance – Content Sync

Grabbit

https://github.com/TWCable/grabbit


Grabbit

Your benefits:

Synchronize large repositories efficiently

No need to worry about storage space and network latency

Frequent content synchronization (live <-> staging)


AEM Open Source World


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