How to Fix Session Errors in AEM

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How to Fix Session Errors in AEM by Aanchal Sikka

Overview

Ever feel like ItemStateException is a ghost in your AEM machine? This exception might be seasoned, but it's still haunting many a legacy codebase. I've just published a blog into possible causes and (more importantly) how to make them disappear. Take a look!

https://techrevel.blog/2025/05/22/how-to-fix-staleitemstateexception-invaliditemstateexception-and-o...

Q&A

Please use this thread to ask questions relating to this article

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Good blog post, thanks @aanchal-sikka!

A few remarks:
* I do not recommend to always do a session.refresh before you save content, as it can cause significant overhead without any benefit. If you have code which is prone to such situations, I would use a different approach and in case of RepositoryExceptions I would try a retry (and doing a Session refresh before). 

* And in the end it does not matter if you use the JCR API or the Sling Resource API, you can get these exceptions on both layers. I prefer the Resource API in general, because it's easier to use in most cases.

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Thanks @Jörg_Hoh for reviewing and suggestions.

I have updated the related content in the blog post

[#4]

@aanchal-sikka this is a great post. Thanks for the insights. I'm learning more and more.

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@aanchal-sikka Nice article!