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This is a project template for AEM-based applications. It is intended as a best-practice set of examples as well as a potential starting point to develop your own functionality.

Modules

The main parts of the template are:

• core: Java bundle containing all core functionality like OSGi services, listeners or schedulers, as well as component-related Java code such as servlets or request filters.
• ui.apps: contains the /apps (and /etc) parts of the project, ie JS&CSS clientlibs, components, and templates
• ui.content: contains sample content using the components from the ui.apps
• all: a single content package that embeds all of the compiled modules (bundles and content packages) including any vendor dependencies

How to build

To build all the modules run in the project root directory the following command with Maven 3:

mvn clean install

To build all the modules and deploy the all package to a local instance of AEM, run in the project root directory the following command:

mvn clean install -PautoInstallSinglePackage

Or to deploy it to a publish instance, run

mvn clean install -PautoInstallSinglePackagePublish

Or alternatively

mvn clean install -PautoInstallSinglePackage -Daem.port=4503

Or to deploy only the bundle to the author, run

mvn clean install -PautoInstallBundle

Or to deploy only a single content package, run in the sub-module directory (i.e ui.apps)

mvn clean install -PautoInstallPackage

Testing

There are one level of testing contained in the project:

Unit tests

This show-cases classic unit testing of the code contained in the bundle. To test, execute:

mvn clean test

ClientLibs

The frontend module is made available using an AEM ClientLib. When executing the NPM build script, the app is built and the aem-clientlib-generator package takes the resulting build output and transforms it into such a ClientLib.

A ClientLib will consist of the following files and directories:

• css/: CSS files which can be requested in the HTML
• css.txt (tells AEM the order and names of files in css/ so they can be merged)
• js/: JavaScript files which can be requested in the HTML
• js.txt (tells AEM the order and names of files in js/ so they can be merged
• resources/: Source maps, non-entrypoint code chunks (resulting from code splitting), static assets (e.g. icons), etc.

Maven settings

The project comes with the auto-public repository configured. To setup the repository in your Maven settings, refer to:

http://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/kb/SetUpTheAdobeMavenRepository.html