Just to clarify, it may be that your basic problem is trying to build dependencies on individual social communities jars instead of the Communities API jar.-JK

Please see if this information, written for AEM 6.1 [0], is helpful for CQ 5.6.1 and version 1.4 of the social communities package.You would need to look in your package manager to see what version of social communities package you have installed in order to specify the version to Maven correctly.Ma...

You might be able to use sling:resourceSuperType as a way to implement indirection.  You create a test component that has no implementation, its implementation comes from what it inherits from its sling:resourceSuperType.1) create component /apps/myapp/components/pages/test1 this is an actual test c...

SocialUtils is only marked deprecated as of AEM 6.1.  You can use these methods while paying attention when replacement information is available.  That information would be made available in release notes, but also likely in the AEM Communities developer section of the documentation, such as http://...

And, yes, the 6.1 version of the documentation needs to be updated.-JK

Did you upgrade from 6.0 to 6.1?In 6.0,http://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-0/develop/ref/javadoc/com/adobe/cq/social/commons/client/api/SocialCollectionComponentFactory.htmlIn 6.1,http://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-1/ref/javadoc/com/adobe/cq/social/scf/SocialCollectionComponentFactory.html- JK(Apol...

To state the obvious, you must be signed in with administrator privileges to access CRXDE Lite.See also http://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-1/develop/dev-tools/developing-with-crxde-lite.html- JK

Why does Sling not handle \U...\E?It's likely because Java does not support the Perl preprocessing operations \l, \u, \L, and \U.http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html

Oh!  You found a bug in the documentation that I just fixed.See http://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-0/author/social-communities/create-blog.html#Adding%20Quick%20Reference%20LinksIn AEM 6.0 social communities, the components of use for the Blog feature moved from the Blog component group to the Comm...

Hi,The inability to upgrade to all of AEM 6.0 does not prevent you from obtaining the Social Communities 6.0 features on AEM 5.6.1.   There is a 5.6.1 feature pack for that (version 1.4).  5.6.1 ships with version 1.3.But that won't affect the Blog.Would you be willing to provide a sense of your ski...