Eclipse AEM plugin + server configuration, what does it do?

[TB3dock]

According to this article: https://aem.redquark.org/2018/10/day-03-setting-up-aem-development.html

You can add your local sever.  I did this.

I already have the wknd app deployed previously from the command line (mvn clean install -PautoInstallSinglePackage)

What can I do with this connected instance?  I presume I still need to use maven if I want to build and deploy my local changes (e.g. to core), so the server integration is not involved.

The article mentioned importing and exporting content. How does one do this?

[Asutosh_Jena_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @TB3dock 

This works in the same way as of FileVault tool. Please see the details about Filevault here:

http://www.aemcq5tutorials.com/tutorials/configure-filevault-vlt-tool-in-cq/

Basically using the plugin, you can make some change in Eclipse/editor and can export the file only to AEM without rebuilding the whole code. Also if you are making any change on CRX/DE that can be pulled back to your file system using the plugin.

Thanks!

[TB3dock]

Interesting. That file vault config looks long winded and difficult - is it worth the effort? Does this work for code in core, or only for content? VS Code already has the ability to push files (not core) directly to a running server, is this different?