Friday, 8 November 2013

Developing a Java Swing Application that displays Adobe Experience Manager Data

When working with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), sometimes you need to query data that is located in the AEM JCR and view results. Typically you write an AEM component to display the results within a web application. However, sometimes you want to be able to view the data without writing an AEM component or viewing the data from within an AEM web application. Even our team at Adobe has these requirements. That is, we want to be able to quickly get at data without having to write an AEM web application. For example, consider AEM community members which of course is data stored in the AEM JCR. We want the ability to quickly view community members, scores, and even activity based on date values.

In this situation, a Java Swing application is a good choice to use to build a custom tool that enables you to quickly get at the JCR data and view the result set. You can display the result set in a Swing data type that extends javax.swing.JTable, as shown in this illustration.

A Java Swing application that displays data retrieved from the AEM JCR


For information about javax.swing.JTable, see http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/javax/swing/JTable.html.

AEM 5.5-6.1

This development article walks you through how to build a Java Swing application that queries the AEM JCR and displays the result set. To read this development article, click http://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/java-swing-applications.html.

AEM 6.3

 To read this development article for AEM 6.3 (which uses JCR SQL2 API), click https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/java-swing-applications-aem63.html.

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I (Scott Macdonald) am a Senior Digital Marketing Community Manager at Adobe Systems with 20 years in the high tech industry. I am also a programmer with knowledge in Java, JavaScript, C#,C++, HTML, XML and ActionScript. If  you would like to see more CQ or other Adobe Digital Marketing end to end articles like this, then leave a comment and let me know what content you would like to see.


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