Adobe Experience Manager Links

AEM Links Index

• AEM Cheat Sheet
• AEM Console Cheat Sheet
• Sling Curl Command Cheat Sheet
• Dispatcher Cheat Sheet
• Gradle Cheat Sheet
• Maven Cheat Sheet
• Problems & Solutions
• Query Builder Cheat Sheet
• AEM using Docker

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Start Here

• Adobe Experience Manager Onboarding resources
• AEM project archetype by Adobe
• AEM Demo Machine
• WKND Sites Project - Adobe's reference site implementation

Blogs

• Things on a content management system
• Daniel Klco's Blog
• OpsInventor (Tad Reeves' Blog)
• AEM @ Reddit, Adobe CQ @ Reddit
• Scott's Digital Community
• CQ-OPS
• Experience Managed
• ICF Next Engineering Blog
• CQ5 | AEM6 Solutions and Suggestions
• Nate Yolles' Blog
• Bounteous AEM Blog
• AEM.Design Blog
• Wunderman Thompson Technology Blog

Blogs (slightly outdated but good historical content)

• Wem Blog
• The Real CQ
• Code Monkey
• cqwemblog
• AEM Stuff
• AEM Development Mastery
• Adobe Experience Manager Podcast

Twitter accounts to follow

• Jörg Hoh
• Daniel Klco
• Chris Millar
• Gaston Gonzalez
• Wim Symons
• Brett Birschbach
• Gabriel Walt
• AEM Guru
• David
• Mark Adamcin
• Nate Yolles
• Justin Edelson
• Cedric Huesler
• Bounteous Adobe

Component Development

• HTL (fka Sightly) Style Guide

Adobe Consulting Services (ACS)

• Commons - AEM development and component toolkit for bootstrapping any AEM project
• Tools - Set of tools for AEM to make developer lives easier
• Samples - Well commented code samples of AEM building blocks to help educate AEM developers.

Continuous Integration and Delivery - DevOps

• Grabbit
• Recap - rsync for Adobe Granite
• Chef cookbook by Tacit Knowledge
• Python client for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) API
• Carty - Visual Sling mappings editor

Documentation

• 6.1
• 6.2
• 6.3
• 6.4
• 6.5

Events

• Adobe Summit
• Evolve
• adapt.to
• There are a lof of meetups all over the world. Come join us in San Francisco.

Forums, Help

• Official Adobe Experience Manager Forum
• Stackoverflow

Java

• Google Java Style Guide

AEM as a Cloud Service

• Migration guides
• Development Guidelines
• AEM Cloud Service Dispatcher Converter

AEM Screens

• Screens HowTo project

Quick References

• Frequently Used CQ URLs
• Apache Sling Cheat Sheet
• Coral UI 3

Open Source Documentation

• Sling
• Jackrabbit Oak
• Apache Felix
• JCR 1.0 Spec
• JCR 2.0 Spec

Screencasts, Podcasts, Presentations

• AEM Gems - technical deep dives delivered by Adobe experts
• AEM @ SlideShare
• Listing of Ask the AEM Community Experts sessions

Oak

• Oak Index Definition Generator
• David's Model: A guide for content modeling

Development Tools

• AEMSync - AEM Synchronization Tool, the tool pushes code changes to AEM instance(s) upon a file change (Single most useful tool for AEM development)
• Gulp Slang - Gulp process CURLs content straight into JCR
• AEM Compose - Universal automation CLI tool for AEM and Ansible extension for managing AEM environments
• AEM Stubs - Providing sample data for AEM applications in a simple and flexible way
• Gradle AEM Plugin - Allows to manage local AEM instances, build and deploy AEM packages and more
• Grunt Clientlibify - Grunt plugin for integrating AEM with a styleguide
• Grunt Smart VLT - A simple grunt interface for Adobe VLT (last commit >2 years)
• Vagrant AEM - Vagrant boxes for AEM
• AEM Docker Containers - AEM and Dispatcher Docker Containers, AEM 6.3 - 6.5 - sdk-2021.3.5087
• AEM Ansible Roles - Roles for managing your AEM services.

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Open Source Projects & Code Examples

A curated list of open source projects, code examples and snippets to learn from and base your work from:

• Libraries and extensions for AEM applications - huge library of extensions
• AEM Replication Customization
• CRX / AEM Package built w/ ANT + XSL
• AEM React - Render components using React, isomorphic JavaScript rendering.
• TODO MVC - SCF+SRP implementation of ToDo MVC with walkthrough.
• SASS compiler for AEM - provides native SASS support in AEM
• AEM WCM Core Components - Set of standardized WCM components supported by Adobe.

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Tools (in AEM)

This is more of a short cut for people who don't want to navigate through the AEM UI or search for these useful tools in the docs:

• QueryBuilder Debugger
• XPath/SQL search
• CQ5 Translator
• Dump Libs
• DAM WebDav
• CQ5 AntiSamy configuration XSS
• ContextHub Diagnostics

Servlets (in AEM)

• Query Builder JSON Servlet
• Security API

Third-party Tools

• Adobe Marketing Cloud Open Developer - directory for tools
• Access Control Tool
• AEM Permission Management
• Felix Search Web Console Plugin - decompiler and more
• Sling Dynamic Include
• AEM Tooling Plugin for Intellij IDEA
• NEBA - integration of Spring Framework into Apache Sling
• WebSight - Set of AEM/Sling Admin Tools (User Manager, Package Manager, Groovy Console and Resource Browser)
• Composum Nodes - various AEM/Sling Admin Tools (Resource Browser, User Manager, Sling Package Manager, Groovy Console etc.)

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Helpful Specific Articles

Coral UI, Touch UI

• Coral UI Documentation

FAQs, Knowledge Base

• All Adobe Knowledge Base Articles
• CRX Knowledge Base Articles
• Replication
• Workflows
• Dispatcher
• LDAP
• The most complete list of -XX options for Java JVM

Component Development

• Favourite CQ5 utils
• Using xtypes (Classic UI)

Workflows

• CQ5 OOTB workflow processes

Security

• Tighten Up Security in Production CQ Environment
• How to protect your CQ instances from Google searches

Talks, Presentations

• Replication deep dive
• From Eventing to Job Processing

Certification

• Adobe WEM / CQ Tips and Tricks (Google Doc)
• ACE: AEM 6.0 Architect experience and Certification Path
• AEM 6.0 Architect Certification tips

Other

• AEM Capability Matrix - list AEM Capabilities, Features and OOTB Component
• Apache Sling Resource Resolver Rules in a Nutshell
• Adobe CQ/AEM Support Matrix
• Adobe CQ5 AEM cURL Commands
• How to upgrade AEM 6.5 safely
• Experiencing Adobe Experience Manger - Day CQ