The AEM Maven

You might be looking to create your own custom context-aware configurations. Or you might be dealing with existing ones like those for...

In my last post I covered the topic of digital signatures. And I wrote a servlet that used the certificate form the trust store to verify...

Cryptography is all around us. Surfing the web using SSL/TLS. SSH public key authentication. Or SAML authentication. Things get signed...

While developing custom solutions for AEM, files are synced with the JCR and tested oh... several hundred times a day! JSP, HTL, XML or...

In the AEM world, Oracle Java 1.8 was the de-facto standard for a long time. In recent years there has been a shift to Java 11 from both...

This week I received a new Mac laptop. I thought it would be a good time to go over how I setup some of the tooling I use for local...

I love writing code. What I love more is writing less. That is why I like Sling models. I have written about leveraging its injectors....

In my last post, I explored three different ways to use Groovy in our AEM projects. Using Groovy to build OSGi components, servlets and...

Learn how you can integrate Groovy 3.0 into your AEM project. Without the AEM Groovy console.

I started out with AEM in 2013. On my first project, I remember having to do something with CORS headers. I remember doing it with a...

In AEM we tend to develop custom OSGi services that do small units of work. For example, an OSGi service to send emails. Or a service...

On almost every AEM project I've worked on, there has been a need to generate a Google sitemap. It is standard SEO practice. The first...

In the old days, if you needed a Sling ResourceResolver, you would get a reference to a ResourceResolverFactory and call...

You spent countless hours developing, testing, and putting together an awesome AEM site. The whole time you work as 'admin'. You make it...

Recently I started a new AEM as a Cloud Service project. The first thing I did was generate a new repository using the Maven archetype. I...

Make assertions easy by adding equals() and hashCode() to your Sling Models and POJOs.

For the past year, I have been blogging for my employers. Perficient and most recently 3|Share. It has been a good experience that I plan...