share content of a secured page with other internal web applications

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Hi,

I want to allow other web applications whch run internally within the company access to the content of some of my secured pages. Any suggestions on best practices on how to implement this requirement?

Thanks in advance!

[smacdonald2008 · Accepted solution]

That is a common use case. AEM data located in the AEM JCR is essentially what you want to share with other apps in your network.

To do this, you can write a custom Sling Servlet that uses the JCR API/or AEM Query Builder API to retrieve AEM JCR Data. The other app can perform a GET request to your custom AEM Sling Servlet and AEM returns the data in a HTTP response. You can code the sling servlet to return JCR data to meet your business requirements. For example - you can return JSON, XML, files, etc, 

Here is an example of a Java app posting a file to AEM via a custom Sling Servlet. You can perform a similar use case. Instead of a POST, perform a GET. 

http://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/post_files.html

(in this example, the external app is a Java swing app performing the POST).  

Here is another example of writing a custom Sling Servlet:

http://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/custom-sling-servlets.html