Posts in Category "CRX"

Building Components in Adobe CQ5 – Part 2: A tutorial on jQuery, AJAX and Sling

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Marcel Boucher | Comments (6)

In this second part of my series on CQ5 and jQuery, we are going to look at how to implement a jQuery plugin that uses AJAX to retrieve data from CQ5. I picked the jQuery Flexigrid plugin as the target for this tutorial. The sample that we will build is to retrieve a list of users from CQ5 and display that list in the grid component. Although this is use case is meant for an administrative type of task (we would not display a list of registered users to just anyone), I picked this scenario because it will show us how to execute a callback to a JSP in CQ to retrieve JSON formatted data. Since the default Sling servlet in CQ5 can be used to retrieve content in JSON format for pretty much anything, I wanted to chose a fringe use case where we would not use the default Sling servlet and provide our own request handler so we can understand the complete workflow involved.

This tutorial builds on the first part of this series. We are going to create a new component in our /app/samples tree and re-use the clientlibs approach to include the required Flexigrid client files. We’ll then create a component JSP that will render the Flexigrid plugin. Once the grid is displayed, it will make a callback to the server to fetch the data to be displayed. This will be the focus of this post – showing how to configure and handle the call back through Sling and return the result of a CQ5 API call (get all users) in JSON back to the grid to be displayed. Continue reading…

Announcing Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Marcel Boucher | Comments (3)

Today, we announced the Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform. This is a very exciting time for Adobe and every organization looking to deliver customer experience solutions that truly meet market requirements. Too many times software companies talk about things to come and how they can make it better. Customer Experience Management is not a future trend, the time is now. The Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform is built to enable developers to deliver the best multi-channel experience possible – whether it’s HTML5, Flash or AIR.

You may be asking yourself, so what’s the big deal about ADEP, I could do the above with Flex and jQuery, etc. The big deal is that with the combination of CRX (from the Day acquisition) and LiveCycle ES which is now ADEP, you now have a modular platform where web scalable capabilities such as data services and composite application framework (previously known as Mosaic) run on the lightweight Experience Server core (CRX) and enterprise scalable capabilities like process management and document services run on the Document Server on JEE(LiveCycle).

Add that to what you can now build in Flex 4.5 for mobile and browser as well as HTML5 within dreamweaver, you now have one killer platform and best of breed tooling to leverage your existing IT investments.

Now that we have reached public announce, you will see a lot of backlogged information hit the bloggosphere pretty fast. Actually, I am hosting two sessions this week: one on Tuesday as part of the Developer Deep Dive sessions and another on Thursday as part of Flex Developer Week. You can also check out the new CEM website for more information on the awesome solutions that we will be releasing on top of ADEP. Rob Tarkoff also posted on the Adobe blogs an excellent overview.

Of course we will be showcasing all of this great stuff at Adobe MAX 2011and for the first time, we will also be hosting our first Digital Enterprise Summit October 3-4 in LA as well.

Stay tuned, we’re just getting started!

 

Custom LiveCycle ES component that communicates with CRX

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Marcel Boucher | Comments (0)

With the acquisition of Day, there has been a lot of work within engineering to integrate CRX into the LiveCycle ES technology stack. However, since LiveCycle ES is an extensible platform – as I have been preaching for the last few years :) – there is no need to wait until the next version of the product is available to take advantage of CQ and CRX.

To demonstrate this point, I have build a custom component (DSC) for LiveCycle ES that uses the JCR api. Of course, I used the Component Development Tool posted on labs.adobe.com to create this component.

I built this component with service configuration parameters that enable you to define the CRX server URI and account information. Since this is just a sample, I took a shortcut and enabled hardcoded credentials to connect to CRX. The service has two operations addContent and retrieveContent. The operation properties are very straight forward. All you need to do is specify the CRX path where to save or retrieve the content, file name, etc.

Custom Component Eclipse Project (compiled JAR in the dist folder)

This does not replace the great work that will be coming out in the next release of LiveCycle ES. If you have not registered for the LiveCycle ES prerelease program, you need to check it out. This is a closed beta. to enroll, contact your Adobe sales rep.