Yes you can deploy bundles directly to an AEM using Maven plugins. Check these links- http://www.cqblueprints.com/tipsandtricks/build-and-deploy-osgi/build-deploy-osgi-1.htmlhttps://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-1/develop/dev-tools/ht-projects-maven.html

You should run the tarpm optimization and datastore garbage collection jobs-http://cq-ops.tumblr.com/post/29627149909/recommended-sequence-of-cq-maintenance-operationshttp://cq-ops.tumblr.com/post/65701569858/how-to-schedule-cq-data-store-garbage-collection

My hunch is that when the scene7 publish job runs on DAM assets it writes some status metadata property on each asset to track the status of the publish operation. And if there are huge number of assets then the number of writes to the repository increases proportionately which leads to creation of ...

It runs on publisher when you set the run mode to publish. However, you need to make sure that the launcher configuration is also rightly set in publisher instance as well. In the publisher launcher configuration the run mode should be set to publish as well. 

Yes the configuration for classic UI is different and has to be done separately.  See the "CREATING NEW METADATA PROPERTY FOR ASSETS" section in the following document- https://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/cq/5-6-1/dam/metadata_for_digitalassetmanagement.html#Creating New Metadata Property for Assets

You can use the ACL Packager tool for exporting ACLs between AEM instances - https://adobe-consulting-services.github.io/acs-aem-commons/features/acl-packager.html

By default the query builder API return only 10 results. If you want to return all the results then you need to set the limit field in the query. The below is mentioned in the documentation - https://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-1/develop/search/querybuilder-api.htmlBy default, the query builder jso...

This seems to be a bug in OAK. You should probably log a day care support ticket for this. 

Hi Yash, I have checked the token values and the expired time is 10 minutes greater than the issued time which is as expected. exp - 1452592341  --> GMT: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 09:52:21 GMTiat - 1452591741 --> GMT: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 09:42:21 GMTYou can use http://www.epochconverter.com/ for doing this conv...

If you use webdav then you can mount the CRX folders on the local machine as folder. And any document you create/update or delete in that folder will be automatically synced to the AEM repository. With this approach, you can use any editing software for all the document types you want to manage in A...