Adobe Experience Manager Essentials

Outline the AEM architecture stack, from the OSGi runtime and Apache Felix to Jackrabbit Oak and Sling, and explain how JCR stores content and powers REST endpoints.

Understand how dispatcher functions as the ams caching and load balancing tool, protecting the server, filtering urls, balancing requests, and caching publisher pages to improve performance.

Explore HTL, Adobe's HTML template language for AEM that replaces JSP, known as sightly, enabling component development through server-side expression language and data-sly block statements in rendered markup.

Explore how OSGi enables modular applications with bundles (jar files) and imports through a service registry. Observe dynamic life cycle on the Java VM, controlling install, start, stop, update, uninstall.

Explore three essential Adobe Experience Manager developer tools: CR Delight, web console, and package manager to manage the repository, OSGi bundles, configurations, and content packages.

Understand the Java content repository (JCR) as a hierarchical tree of nodes and properties, storing structured and unstructured content, with folders like apps, conf, content, libs, and home.

Master Apache Maven for Java projects, using pom.xml to define the project object model and dependencies, and leverage Uber Jar, while exploring archetype and Eclipse integration for Adobe Experience Manager.

Compare immutable content packages stored in source control and deployed via Cloud Manager with mutable packages built in a Maven archetype, containing templates, scripts, and other content.

Understand how the experience manager enforces content and code separation, with immutable apps and libs and mutable content and configuration, using a package that includes UI apps and UI content.

Guide readers through templates and components to structure pages, compare static and editable templates, and use core and proxy components to build robust, extensible pages with the component library.

Discover how Adobe Experience Manager's client side libraries store css and javascript as small files, manage dependencies, and reduce requests by concatenation, using SDL for integration.

Explore the Adobe Client Data Layer, a JavaScript data layer that captures visitor interactions—page impressions, clicks, and conversion events—and exposes data to Adobe Analytics and Target.

Understand headful (full stack) and headless architectures in Adobe Experience Manager, where content is managed in the AEM repository and delivered via REST or GraphQL APIs to render experiences.

Explore how Adobe Experience Manager blends traditional cms flexibility with headless cms delivery. This hybrid cms acts as a central hub delivering content to multiple channels via html or json.

Compare content fragments and experience fragments in Adobe Experience Manager, noting that content fragments are design agnostic and channel agnostic, while experience fragments blend content with design and layout.

Design Adobe Experience Manager forms for PDF, HTML5, and adaptive forms across web and mobile. Explore integrations with analytics and Acrobat Sign for healthcare, finance, HR, and government use cases.

Navigate to sites, create a page using the landing page template, name it, then edit to add a text component and an image from assets, and preview the page.

Navigate the assets console to manage digital assets, organize with files and collections, use private or public folders, apply tags, resize, annotate, and share via links while tracking workflows.