AEM Sites Core Components
A set of standardized components for AEM 6.3+ that can be used to speed up development of websites.
Documentation
- Tutorial to build a new site using the Core Components
- AEM product documentation of Core Components
- adaptTo() 2017 presentation
Development
If you're curious about how the next generation of components looks like, a tech preview is made available in the
development
branch.
Contributing
Contributions are welcome! Read the Contributing Guide for more information.
Available Components
-
Page authoring components:
-
Form components:
Visit the roadmap wiki page for upcoming changes.
The components' versioning scheme is documented on the AEM Core WCM Components' versioning policies wiki page.
* The Content Fragment Component is an extension to the Core Components and must be separately downloaded and explicitly enabled.
System Requirements
The latest version of the Core Components, require the below minimum system requirements:
Core Components | Extension | AEM 6.4 | AEM 6.3 | Java |
---|---|---|---|---|
2.2.0 | 1.0.8 | 6.4.2.0 | 6.3.3.0 | 1.8 |
For a list of requirements for previous versions, see Historical System Requirements.
Installation
To install everything, except the extensions, the released aggregate package core.wcm.components.all
can be installed via the AEM Package Manager.
For more information about the Package Manager please have a look at How to Work With Packages documentation page.
Build
The project has the following minimal requirements:
- Java SE Development Kit 8 or newer
- Apache Maven 3.3.1 or newer
For ease of build and installation the following profiles are provided:
autoInstallSinglePackage
- install everything to an existing AEM author instance, as specified byhttp://${aem.host}:${aem.port}
autoInstallSinglePackagePublish
- install everything to an existing AEM publish instance, as specified byhttp://${aem.publish.host}:${aem.publish.port}
autoInstallPackage
- installs the package/bundle to an existing AEM author instance, as specified byhttp://${aem.host}:${aem.port}
autoInstallPackagePublish
- installs the package/bundle to an existing AEM publish instance, as specified byhttp://${aem.publish.host}:${aem.publish.port}
UberJar
This project relies on the unobfuscated AEM 6.3 cq-quickstart. This is publicly available on https://repo.adobe.com
For more details about the UberJar please head over to the How to Build AEM Projects using Apache Maven documentation page.
Install everything
You can install everything needed to use the components on your running AEM instance by issuing the following command in the top level folder of the project:
mvn clean install -PautoInstallSinglePackage
Individual packages/bundles
You can install individual packages/bundles by issuing the following command in the top level folder of the project:
mvn clean install -PautoInstallPackage -pl <project_name(s)> -am
Please note that
-pl/-projects
option specifies the list of projects that you want to install-am/-also-make
options specifies that dependencies should also be built
Include core components as subpackage into your own project maven build
The released version of the core components are available on the public maven repository at https://repo.adobe.com. To include the core components package into your own project maven build you can add the dependency
<dependency>
<groupId>com.adobe.cq</groupId>
<artifactId>core.wcm.components.all</artifactId>
<type>zip</type>
<version>2.1.0</version>
</dependency>
and sub package section
<subPackage>
<groupId>com.adobe.cq</groupId>
<artifactId>core.wcm.components.all</artifactId>
<filter>true</filter>
</subPackage>
to the content-package-maven-plugin
.
For more information how to setup the Adobe Maven Repository (repo.adobe.com
) for your maven build, please have a look at the
related Knowledge Base article