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TheBigRed
TheBigRed
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December 21, 2016
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Running a daemon like service

  • December 21, 2016
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Hello trying to run a daemon like service on AEM. What is the best practice for this?

Use case is need to run a service that constantly watches a folder outside of AEM and pulls in content whenever it's uploaded to it.

Better to trigger this as an servlet or and OSGi service? Or can I implement this like a daemon somehow?

Thanks!!!

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Best answer by smacdonald2008

Service. You can also build a scheduler on it so it checks everyone often - this is the power of custom services - see this as an example of a scheduled service: 

http://scottsdigitalcommunity.blogspot.ca/2014/05/scheduling-adobe-experience-manager.html

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smacdonald2008
smacdonald2008
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December 21, 2016

To implement this - you need to write a Java OSGi bundle. This is how AEM works - not using UNIX daemon services. 

You need to write the Java app logic - however - there are many online resources that will point you in the correct direction - ie: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/io/notification.html

TheBigRed
TheBigRedAuthor
Level 4
December 21, 2016

Thank you Scott, what would be the best practice way of triggering this?

Service or Servlet?

smacdonald2008
smacdonald2008Accepted solution
Level 10
December 21, 2016

Service. You can also build a scheduler on it so it checks everyone often - this is the power of custom services - see this as an example of a scheduled service: 

http://scottsdigitalcommunity.blogspot.ca/2014/05/scheduling-adobe-experience-manager.html

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