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SOAP may be legacy, but it still powers critical enterprise systems. If your AEM project needs to integrate with SOAP, you’ve got choices: push for REST, use SAAJ, or lean on Apache CXF. Here’s a practical guide to making it work in 2025.

Adobe keeps releasing new OpenAPI-based APIs, and I got curious: could I use them to connect SAP Commerce and AEM? This post is a proof-of-concept and a look at what I discovered.

Learn how to spin up AEMaaCS with Java 21 in a VS Code dev container, attach a Java debugger, and sync files using the repo tool. Fast, modular setup.

Learn how to use the AEM Admin API for Edge Delivery Services—covering authentication, publishing, and role management with Postman.

Choosing the right Git branching strategy for AEM Edge Delivery Services: GitHub Flow vs. GitLab Flow. Explore the options.

Use AEM Events and Adobe App Builder for real-time search indexing. Keep external search engines in sync with your content updates.

AEM is evolving to a cloud-native platform! Discover how App Builder enables powerful integrations and customization for developers.

If you are an AEM developer reading this blog, there is a good chance you've heard of Edge Delivery Services (EDS). If so, then you have...

Secure AEM with Azure Key Vault: Centralize secret management, use RBAC, and enhance security with client certificates in your AEM projects.

Over the years I have set up countless development environments. And to help ease onboarding for new developers, I have leveraged several...

I got an invite to join 2 other colleagues for an Adobe "Partner Day" event in Austin. Focused on Adobe Commerce. Including the recently...

Learn how to securely integrate AEM with Azure Storage using Azure Identity & Access Management credentials. Follow step-by-step guide.

This morning someone said "January flew by!". Yes it did. So happy belated new year 🥳! In 2023 I set three career resolutions for...

Explore the transition from deprecated Java APIs like org.apache.sling.settings.SlingSettingsService to future-proof practices in AEMaaCS

Don't write any more tedious, error-prone validation code. Use constraint annotations and let the bean validation framework do the rest.

Back in December of 2022, I was working on an AEM 6.5 project. It was a typical project. Including the build time. Locally, I mitigated...

The dispatcher is an integral part of the AEM architecture. So important that it has made it into AEMaaCS. But it is simple and has not...

Sometimes when I meet someone, the question comes up "What do you do for a living." I answer "I'm an internet plumber!" I create the...

Last week I had the opportunity to attend Adobe Summit 2023. Now that I've had the weekend to recuperate, and gather my thoughts, I'm...

As part of my job, I review a lot of code. One of the problems that I see often is that a lot of code gets written to integrate AEM with...