smacdonald2008 wrote... Build a service in AEM that uses a thread that runs. You can have an operation that turns the thread on and off. Read this that talks about threads and OSGi bundles: http://collaboration.cmc.ec.gc.ca/science/rpn/biblio/ddj/Website/articles/DDJ/2006/0609/060801og01/060801og01....

smacdonald2008 wrote... Are you taking about a Watched Folder system on your file system. That is - when an image is added to the folder (ie - C:\WatchedFolder) - the image is automatically posted to the AEM DAM?   Yes, that is the basic idea.  Only not just post to AEM DAM.  There is other "process...

Hello,I have a requirement to monitor / poll a path on filesystem of author instance for new asset files.  When new file assets are SFTP'ed to that file system path / directory, my AEM service should add them to the DAM.Question:  how best to implement this in AEM?  Should it be a servlet or service...

Ah, yes, I am familiar with design mode.  Doing exactly that now.  But this is not exactly what is needed.Our requirement:  We do not want content authors to be able to pick components in design mode to add to side kick.  We want this locked down, only the few needed components available for that te...

We have a template.  Some components are fixed in the template.  Other components we want to allow author to drag and drop on page from sidekick. We only want a few components available in the sidekick for the author.  How do we control what components are available in the sidekick? I think this is ...

Task is to Install AEM 5.6.1 to weblogic application server following instructions here:http://dev.day.com/docs/en/cq/current/getting_started/download_and_startworking.htmlThe problem is updating the web.xml inside the AEM quickstart war file (using AEM war file version for application server instal...

Performance is the obvious big pro of cloud based approach over on-premise.Say, If you are rendering out a video...  consider the performance from the cloud based approach vs on-premise.Plus integration of that cloud integrated into the AEM platform OOTB can be simpler / easier than integrating with...

Hello,Can the dispatcher be configured to cache requests to custom servlets?  Is this standard practice?Is it typical for the dispatcher to cache publish instance requests to custom servlets that return a JSON repsonse?Thanks

thank you smacdonald for the quick and helpful replies."you are referencing the wrong version"what is the right version then ?dependency finder just shows this below - no version info is listed.  how do I know what version to specify in pom to use the version already in AEM?        org.apache.oltu.o...

What is the best approach to deploy 3rd party dependencies to AEM OSGI / Felix via Maven build of OSGI bundle?My team has a requirement to build an OSGI Servlet.  It will use dependency org.apache.oltu.oauth2.client that does not exist in CQ.I have a pom to build the servlet now and it references th...