I dont think OOTB provides croping image renditions by default similar to wordpress. we have similar issue when migrating from wordpress to aem. The ACS AEM Commons Named Transform Image Servlet allows specific image transforms to be defined centrally via OSGi configurations. It has ability to Crop ...

There are muliple ways to handle xml reponse one of the ways is parsing xml InputStream using DocumentBuilderFactoryhere is one good resource:java - HTTP request for XML file - Stack Overflow How to read XML response from a URL in java? - Stack Overflow

kautuksahni​ no problem smacdonald2008​ thanks

Please find following link with Date ComponentDate Time Field.zip - Google Drive

Hi here is latest Adobe Article. I tried this for 6.1 and it worked.Article explains clearly about datasourcepool and also how to use jdbc jar file Adobe Experience Manager Help | Injecting a DataSourcePool Service into an Adobe Experience Manager OSGi bundle for more ref check this out : Adobe CQ/A...

tested "granite/ui/components/coral/foundation/form/datepicker"  worked perfectly in AEM 6.3               <date                        jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"                        sling:resourceType="granite/ui/components/coral/foundation/form/datepicker"                        displaye...

regular select:search select:

I tested for 6.3 button component with following snippet path filed in it                  <linkTo                        jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"                        sling:resourceType="granite/ui/components/coral/foundation/form/pathfield"                        fieldLabel="Link to"   ...

Agreed!  either way above articles should help you to read  values restful services for more check  org.apache.commons.httpclient (HttpClient 3.1 API)

Can you pls try this  snippet                                        <ondate                                                jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"                                                sling:resourceType="granite/ui/components/coral/foundation/form/datepicker"                    ...