On almost all of the AEM implementation projects where we start from scratch (and some of the ones where we pick it up from other development companies), we like to have a set of documents that defines several things about the project. These include: Project Structure & Build Strategy, Environments & Networking, Development Process & …
Last year I started a new feature on AEM Podcast where I would share other AEM development content not specifically produced on AEMPodcast.com. It was called, ”This Week in AEM…” The idea was to help get stuff that others had made more widely known, help others know about the other great people that are producing …
One of my favorite things about AEM is how it really leverages the HTTP specification. This really comes in handy when you have a node buried deep in a large tree inside AEM which you want to delete, but the browser times out before CRX DELite can render the expanded folder. In such a case, …
I feel like a broken record when talking to client sometimes. “Thanks for these designs, but what is your content going to look like?” “Can you tell me how your content will be organized?” Most of the time I get a blank stare. Understanding the content defines a lot of how we would approach the …
Sometimes, it becomes necessary to “flush” the compiled JSPs that AEM uses internally. In older versions of AEM, you could delete the CRX paths where the JSPs were stored and AEM would rebuild them on the first request. This changed in AEM 6.1, when the FSClassLoader was added. While in theory, you could go to …