AEM on our Local Machine:

Once you have the quickstart aem jar file, in your file system create two new folders one for author and one for publisher. Copy paste the same jar file in both folders and rename the jar file as follows

For Author: AEM64-author-p4508.jar

For Publish: AEM64-publish-p4509.jar

o Using cmd

1. Go to your jar location and open terminal from there or you can just open new cmd/terminal for mac users and go to the directory where you have saved your jar file

2. Then execute this command to extract the jar file “java -Xmx4096m -jar AEM64-author-p4508.jar -p 4508” for author

3. java -Xmx4096m -jar AEM64-publish-p4509.jar -p 4509 for publish

o Using the bundle install

1. Double click on the jar file you will see a window which shows your port number and the status of the jar extract.

NOTE: When you are installing aem for the first time, do it by using cmd so you can see what it is extracting and also can track the issues (if any while downloading).

Once the installation is done it will open up a new tab on your default browser and you would need to provide the key for the jar.

· As the installation is complete at this time, let’s just go back to your author folder and you will see a crxquickstart folder

· Under which you will see different folder each having its own use (Try to get familiarized with this because we might come here many times)

Different ways to start a AEM instance.

o By Double clicking(extracting) the jar file every time

o Running the command.

o Running the Start.bat file located under crxfolder/bin/start.bat (I would just copy the start.bat file into new batch file and save it on desktop for easy access)

Creating a maven archetype aem project and export the project to your aem instance

o Using eclipse

1. Install AEM Developer tools plugin from eclipse marketplace (In your Real work location you might have to ask for access to marketplace if you are not permitted).

2. Open Eclipse > Help > Eclipse Marketplace > Search for AEM Developer tools for eclipse > Install.

3. Restart eclipse.

4. Now go to file > new > project >Select AEM multimodule project > Choose if you would like to store the project into different location other than Default location.

o Using CLI

1. Make a new folder wherever you like to save the AEM project

2. Open CMD from here or go to CMD and change the working directory to cd <your folder name>.

3. Execute the following command

mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:2.4:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=com.adobe.granite.archetypes -DarchetypeArtifactId=aem-project-archetype -DarchetypeVersion=13 -DarchetypeCatalog=https://repo.adobe.com/nexus/content/groups/public/

4. Here I am using archetype-13 for aem 6.4 version(current version of archetype available is 21).

o Connecting your project to your aem instance

1. Once the project is created, you should be able to see the folder structure like this.

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Cloning an existing maven project from bitbucket/github/anycodebase

o There is a term called “checkout” which simply means copying the existing maven project to your local machine.

o There are few ways you could do it.

o From CLI

1. Copy the link of your repository and in your local, choose a location where you would like to clone the project.

2. Go to that folder/location and open CLI from that location and enter command “git clone <copied link of your repository> “

o GIT BASH

1. Open Git-bash, execute “cd /<your drive>/<foldername>”. Eg : “cd /d/abc”

2. Execute “git clone <copied link of your repository>”