Hello everyone - my name is Paul McMahon and I am one the lead architects for AEM at Accenture (I started my AEM career at Acquity Group), My love for the product goes back to my first implementation in 2002 on CQ 3.2 (before the days of the parsys or CRX :-)). The growth of community over the years has been great to watch.

Re: AEM Functionalities Paul_McMahon - Adobe Experience Manager

My thoughts below:Internationalization - the tool will support as many languages as you want. If you talking about adding additional language for sites you manage in the tool see the translation and multi-site manager sections of the documentation (https://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-2/administer/sites/translation.html and https://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-2/administer/sites/msm.html). If you mean adding additional languages to the administration tool - either in the consoles or in your cust...

Re: Problem with publishing a site to publish server Paul_McMahon - Adobe Experience Manager

You wouldn't normally be deploying templates and components via OSGI - how did you template and component scripts get deployed to your author server. Bottom line is whatever steps you used to deploy your code to you author server you need to repeat on your publish server?

Re: Problem with publishing a site to publish server Paul_McMahon - Adobe Experience Manager

Have you deployed your code to the publish server? You mean using the eclipse archetype so I assume you have created your own templates and components. In addition to deploying you code to the author server you also have to deploy it to the publish server.

Re: Activate from script results in incomplete data on publish server Paul_McMahon - Adobe Experience Manager

Are the photos that are uploaded by this script isolated from other DAM Assets. So in your example in /path/to/our/photos - are there other assets managed by users, or is that path just photos uploaded by your script. If they are just photos uploaded by your script you could create copy of the standard DAM asset workflow and add an activation step at the end. This approach assumes you can create the right patterns in your launchers to achieve this. Another option would be if there was some other...

Re: DAM Asset's Renditions break asset in Dispatcher cache Paul_McMahon - Adobe Experience Manager

That URL would work for an image asset - but the asset you are referencing is a mp4 - only thumbnails are created for an MP4. That URL pattern should work with an image asset.

Re: Repository size was not reducing even run GC Paul_McMahon - Adobe Experience Manager

Almost all your storage in the data store (binary files) not tar files. Are you sure someone didn't upload some really large files to either the DAM or the Package Manager. If something is the repository is holding onto a reference to a binary file the data store garbage collection isn't going to remove it. I'd take a look at what's in your Package Manager and your DAM to see if you can find any large files.

Re: Repository size was not reducing even run GC Paul_McMahon - Adobe Experience Manager

Have you considered that you optimized the repository size as much as it's going to be optimized? How large is the repository on disk - what's the size of the tar files and what's the size of the data store? Why do you think repository should be smaller?

Re: Repository size was not reducing even run GC Paul_McMahon - Adobe Experience Manager

I didn't see TarPM optimization in your list? Are you sure the tar file optimization is running to completion? If it doesn't finish within it's schedule window it may not be catching everything. You can start Tar file optimization from the console and then it runs to completion. This may take many hours - I have seen repositories take 24 hours to completely optimize after large content loads.

Re: Best way to stop long running workflow Paul_McMahon - Adobe Experience Manager

Are you actually sure that the process is still running? It's possible that the process either never launched or ended abnormally but left the workflow in a stalled state. Have you checked the logs around the time the workflow kicked off for error messages that might indicate a problem in the process?Are you seeing log output that indicates the job is still running? Or looked at thread dump and seen the thread running? Short of a restart I am not sure there is any way to ensure that the thread. ...

Re: AEM Author prod instance slows down too quick Paul_McMahon - Adobe Experience Manager

50 concurrent users is close to the top end of the performance profile for a single authoring instance. Which version of the software are you on? What sort of hardware are you running on - what number of CPUs and how much memory? How is your storage connected - do you have a fully optimized IO solution? Have you considered that you may be at the point that you need to implement a cluster or off loading strategy? Do you have a performance testing environment. Are you able to duplicate these scena...

Re: ServiceA in BundleA injected into ServiceB in BundleB Paul_McMahon - Adobe Experience Manager

Have you looked not just at the bundles but also the services? Check the following:Is bundle A activeGo to services console - check to see if Service A is active and runningGo to the services console - check to see if Service B is active? If it isn't why - are there unfilled dependencies? Try to activate the service then check error.log for message details.Some potential reasons why you might be having trouble:Service A's package isn't exported by bundle A (verify this in Felix in the package in...

Re: API for Overriding the page Paul_McMahon - Adobe Experience Manager

I am not sure I fully understand you use case, but it sounds to my like what you are describing is something that falls under the Multi-Site Manager functionality. In you use case you have the same page in two locations, and one is the master and the other is a copy of the master and you want to be able to keep the copy in sync with the master? If so you wouldn't do a traditional copy you would be looking using the Live Copy functionality in Multi-Site Manager and then do a rollout. See https://...

Re: Is this a sensible approach to use in AEM? Paul_McMahon - Adobe Experience Manager

As another user pointed out using the query string means you won't caching the results in dispatcher. Can you cache the results in your other layer? Or will the result of /shop/categoryA be cached in a CDN for example? You will want to think through the performance impact of this model and be sure you have the capacity in you publish instances to deal with any increased traffic. One possible approach that would be similar but still leverage Dispatcher would be switch from a query string to a sel...

Re: Language Copy vs Live Copy Paul_McMahon - Adobe Experience Manager

The short answer to you question is that I believe language copy actually kills the live copy relationship so no roll outs will impact the copy. In general language copy is intended to be used to create language copies when you want to do something like manual translation and you simply creating the initial copy of the site. Language copy does not create a relationship between source and target the way that Live Copy does. So in the normal scenario where you creating a language copy of your mast...

Re: Guaranteed Replication Status Paul_McMahon - Adobe Experience Manager

Your first constraint shouldn't impact the proposed concept. A replication event listener can listen for either sent or receive events. So the replication event listener would sit on the publish servers and listen for replication received events - which are happening in your design. A replication event listener does not require a replication agent. Now if you security restriction is that you can't have any outgoing network traffic from your publish servers than you would have an issue, but turni...

Re: Guaranteed Replication Status Paul_McMahon - Adobe Experience Manager

There are probably a bunch of ways to handle it. The simplest way - assuming you have store all the information that is needed by Relay in the content you could write a replication event listener that runs on the publish instances and whenever it receives something it sends the response to Relay. That assumes that Relay will ignore all the duplicate responses since it will get 6 responses. You could set up the replication event listener to only run on one publish server - but then if that one wa...

Re: What is different between Running and Stale Status Paul_McMahon - Adobe Experience Manager

The stale status is indicative of an error state. Essentially it means that the workflow instance is not going to be able to continue to run. One common reason for the stale state is that the payload of the workflow has been deleted or moved. Depending on the version you are running it may also indicate that the Sling events or jobs tied to the workflow instance no longer exist. Generally if the workflow instance has gone stale it means that the it's dead and you can't restart it so you need to ...

Re: Vanity URL is not working as expected Paul_McMahon - Adobe Experience Manager

My guess is that's probably the expected behavior. I don't know this for sure but my guess is that there is Modification Event Listener that listens for changes to the vanity URL property and updates the resource resolver configuration whenever changes are made to the content. Generally these kinds of listeners react quickly, but sometimes if there are lots of events happening they can be delayed which is probably what happened in your case. Again that's a total guess someone from Adobe could ve...

Re: why we configure dispatcher at author instance? Paul_McMahon - Adobe Experience Manager

You should always be configuring dispatcher at the publisher level - dispatcher in front of publisher instances is the standard approach - almost all the dispatcher documentation is geared towards how to configure dispatcher for a publisher instance. In addition to configuring dispatcher in front of you publishers you can optionally configure it in front of you author instances. This is not a replacement for dispatcher in front of publishers but an additional step to take to improve the performa...

Re: sightly and javascript Paul_McMahon - Adobe Experience Manager

What would best practice be however? I assume best practice would be use a JSP or Ecma to generate a dynamic JS file. Sightly is defined as being an HTML templating system right, so if you aren't generating HTML shouldn't you be using a different templating language?

Re: authenticate anonymous user on publish instance Paul_McMahon - Adobe Experience Manager

The standard solution for this in CQ is to use Closed User Groups - http://dev.day.com/docs/en/cq/current/howto/create_apply_cug.html. Based on your exact use case this may be the right approach. If you are using dispatch you will have make some changes to dispatcher to make that work - see http://dev.day.com/docs/en/cq/current/deploying/dispatcher/permissions_cache.html. There some pros and cons to how you go about doing this (and some issues with the instructions). You can check out this prese...

Re: How to find nodes without specific child node? Paul_McMahon - Adobe Experience Manager

I am not sure I understand the question. Can you expand on your use case, what kind of nodes are you searching for - components within a page?

Re: Dispatcher image caching issue. Paul_McMahon - Adobe Experience Manager

Other asset types could work pretty much the same way - you'd have to write your servlet and figure out how to map selectors to the page specific renditions. Unlike the images you would not find as many helper APIs since most people do reference their PDFs directly these days. Still the underlying concept isn't any different. If you follow /libs/foundation/components/parbase/img.GET.java as an example you remove all the image specific stuff, you add the code to map selectors to renditions (and c...

Re: Dispatcher image caching issue. Paul_McMahon - Adobe Experience Manager

If you can get the regular expression right you could probably get the rewrites working. Personally i have always found complex rewrites in /etc/maps challenging to get working as expected. If you do get it working you should be aware that your cache flushing may not work as expected since the path in the cache won't match the path in repository.

Re: Dispatcher image caching issue. Paul_McMahon - Adobe Experience Manager

The best solution would be to not refer to the renditions directly. As a general rule the recommended best practice is to refer to DAM assets through a servlet rather than directly. This gives you better control of the URL and allows you better cache control in general. So for example consider how the image rendering servlet in parbase works. It's image URLs look like /content/geometrixx/en/company/_jcr_content/par/3_1219086936652.img.jpg/1289480092880.jpg. The base servlet always returns the or...

Re: Tools for AEM project creation and deployement Paul_McMahon - Adobe Experience Manager

I don't believe that there are grunt plugins for full spectrum of tasks needed to build and deploy all aspects of an AEM project. If you read excellent blog post Scott pointed to from Citytech you'll see that they are using Grunt to do common JavaScript and CSS tasks (including integration to running author instances). Where you'll still need to look to Maven are the more Java related tasks like building and compiling an OSGI bundle for example. There are a lot of tasks in between those two item...

Re: Design Dialog Configuration in Different Templates. Paul_McMahon - Adobe Experience Manager

If you want a guarantee that your configuration is going to be globally effective you really can't us the design mode to manage the configuration. There are strategies you can take to reduce duplication across templates but those are workarounds - design mode isn't intended to hold global configurations it's intended to hold design configurations specific to a particular location in the page or site. With a requirement like this you'll have to create some central location in your repository wher...

Re: Virtualization in AEM Paul_McMahon - Adobe Experience Manager

If you are referring to server visualization there isn't any AEM related implementation details - the software is installed that same on a virtualized server as it is on physical server. The other place in AEM where you see the term virtual is around virtual components like the column control components. This is a component that doesn't actual have any code - it exists only to allow the author to drag a particular configuration on the page. Not a lot of documentation about that - you need to dig...