What I typically in this scenario is add code in my templates that checks the current page's level and unless the page is at say level 4, or is of a particular template type I change the edit mode to disabled before including the component and switch it back to edit afterwards. <% boolean changed = ...

The default value you declare in dialog is not a default value for the component, it is the default value for the dialog. Until you have opened the dialog and hit save the component's JSP knows nothing about the default value. If you want a default value that is valid without the dialog being saved ...

In order to do this with the out of the box resource resolver you need the following conditions:You would need to be passing back short URLs to your publish servers. For example the URL in the browser would be www.mysite.com/en/page1.html, and what gets passed back by dispatcher to the publish serve...

To follow up on Justin's comments if you want fully embrace Sling rather than thinking as servlets registered at a single location your Sling servlets are registered to an HTTP method, an extension, or a selector but apply all paths. Then the target of your client side applications request is the pa...

If you the have the org.apache.jackrabbit.api.security.user.Authorizable for the group (and you are sure it's a group) you can cast to org.apache.jackrabbit.api.security.user.Group, and then call Group.getMembers. If you aren't sure it's a group you can call Authorizable.isGroup before you do the ca...

In the more recent versions of dispatcher there is a custom header you can set to prevent a page from caching. See http://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/kb/DispatcherNoCache.html for details. 

The most common solution I have implemented to address the need for frequent back ups is to leverage an active - passive author cluster with a SAN data storage layer. This enables several scenarios, the common one however is:On a scheduled basis - say hourly you stop repository writes on the passive...

What version of AEM are you running? Where is the code creating the node running - in a OSGI service? Is it triggered on a schedule or by user action? Could you post a sample of the code? 

My guess would be that it is a permissions issue. If you log in as admin (or impersonate admin) does the issue still exist? There are several groups in those geometrixx packages, so if your group structure relied on any of those groups that were contained in the package it may have impacted the perm...

Someone from Adobe can correct me if I am wrong, but I don't believe the Server Side part of the query builder API is designed to be used remotely. If it is though you'll need more than just the cq-search bundle - you need all the a lot of the CRX jars. You first have to make a remote repository con...