Yes, you can create AEM applications that can consume a third-party web service. For information, see Creating Adobe CQ bundles that consume web services.
You also don't want to insert you resizing efforts prior to calling the image.draw method. The draw method doesn't actually render the image, it draws the HTML img tag that your components print out. If you were to use the ImageHelper to get the layer and resize it that would not actually change th...
Is there a way to resize an image using the com.day.cq.wcm.foundation.Image class? I wanted to extend the foundation image componet and have it resize to a specific height and width. Is there a way to change the size of the image before you call image.draw(out) ?
The AEM JCR stands for the Java content repository. You can store data as nodes and node properties. Data can be stored as within properties that belong to a node. You can store, access, update and delete nodes and properties.