Configuring Adobe CQ to use Apache Directory Service

You can configure Adobe CQ to use a third-party LDAP service that contains user data. By configuring Adobe CQ to use a third-party LDAP service, you can authenticate with Adobe CQ using your user data. That is, you can enter a user located in your LDAP service into CQ login during the login process. This article describes how to setup Apache Directory service, create a new user, configure Adobe CQ to use Apache Directory service, and finally login to Adobe CQ with the new user entered into Apache Directory service.

 As shown in the previous illustration, a user can authenticate with Adobe CQ using user data located in Apache Directory service. To configure Adobe CQ to use Apache Directory service, you configure an Adobe CQ configuration file.

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Note: This development article is for CQ 5.5.

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Developing CQ Custom Workflow Steps using Maven

You can create an Adobe CQ custom workflow step by using Maven. A custom workflow step lets you customize a CQ workflow to meet your business requirements. An Adobe CQ workflow consists of steps that are either participant steps or process steps.

Note: This development article is for Adobe CQ 5.5 or lower. If you want to create a custom step for AEM 5.6, see http://scottsdigitalcommunity.blogspot.ca/2013/10/creating-custom-aem-workflow-steps-that.html.

Participant steps require manual intervention by a person to advance the workflow. Process steps are actions performed by Adobe CQ if certain configured conditions are satisfied. You can create either a participant or process custom workflow step using Maven. You can use the Adobe CQ Java API to create a custom step.

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Creating CQ applications that use HTML Drag and Drop

You can create a custom CQ application that integrates drag and drop functionality supported with HTML5. By integrating drag and drop functionality into your CQ client applications, you offer your users a cutting edge and engaging experience. This drag and drop application lets a user drag a PDF icon to the beginning of the list.

When the user clicks the View PDF Document button, the name of the PDF located at the beginning of the list is retrieved. The PDF name is sent to an OSGi bundle operation that saves the document in a web server location. The IFrame control that is located on the client CQ application displays the document. 

A CQ client that supports drag and drop

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Integrating LiveCycle into Adobe CQ applications

As a user of Adobe Enterprise technologies, you can create an enterprise solution that uses functionality provided by Adobe CQ and LiveCycle ES. By combining the functionality of both server products, you can create applications to solve your business requirements. For example, assume that you want to place user submitted data into a PDF/A document for long-term storage. In this situation, you can call LiveCycle ES from an OSGi bundle and pass the data that was submitted from a CQ application. LiveCycle ES can place the data into a PDF/A document.

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Creating custom CQ email services

You can create a custom CQ email service that lets CQ users send email messages from a CQ web page. To create a CQ email service, you develop an OSGi bundle that uses the Java Mail API. You can also develop a JSP that uses JQuery that calls the OSGi service and passes data that is sent as an email message.

 A CQ email client

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Integrating custom CQ widgets with third-party libraries

Have you ever wondered how to create a custom CQ widget that performs tasks not available with out of the box CQ components. In this situation, you can create a CQ widget that uses third-party libraries that lets your CQ application perform custom tasks. For example, assume that you want to create a CQ application that lets you view a specific street by using Google Map APIs.

Purhaps, you want your CQ component to accept latitude and longitude values and then show the results, as shown in the following illustration.

If you are interested in learning how to create CQ components that use third-party libraries, then check out the  following article:  

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Using JSONWriter objects to display Adobe CQ OSGi data

You can create an org.apache.sling.commons.json.io.JSONWriter instance to invoke Adobe CQ OSGi bundle operations and display data within a JSP. A JSONWriter instance lets you define value and key methods to retrieve data. You can create an Adobe CQ component that uses a JSONWriter instance to submit data to an OSGi bundle operation and get back the results. You can then display the results in a JSP. That is, you can dynamically display data based on user input.

For example, consider the OSGi bundle that uses web services to return weather information. (For information about this OSGi bundle, see  http://scottsdigitalcommunity.blogspot.ca/2012/05/creating-adobe-cq-bundles-that-consume.html.)

Note: The OSGi bundle that returns weather data uses web services to expose various operations that return weather data. To follow along with this development article, you must create the weather OSGi bundle by following that article.

You can use a JSONWriter instance to return weather data based on user input. For example, consider the following graphical user interface that lets a user select a US ZIP code from a drop-down menu:

When the user selects a US Zip code from the drop-down menu and clicks the Click Me button, the weather service OSGi bundle is invoked. A JSONWriter instance is used to invoke the OSGi bundle and the data is returned to the JSP, as shown in the following illustration.

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