AEM also supports the ability to customize these social components to meet your business requirements. You can use the AEM Social Component Framework Java API to create a custom social component. An user can interact with an AEM web site by interacting with functionality exposed by your custom social component.
An AEM social component forms the basis of HTTP API responses and the context made available to a front end component. Sometimes you need to add more information or hide information to the default social component to meet your business requirement. You can achieve this use case by writing an AEM OSGi bundle that uses the AEM Social Component Framework Java API located in the com.adobe.cq.social.commons.client.api package. For information about this API, see Package com.adobe.cq.social.commons.
For example, you can modify the appearance of the AEM comment system by using AEM Java APIs.
To read this development article, click http://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/social_components.html.
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