Building Secure Adobe Experience Manager Web Sites

You can create secure Adobe Experience Manager web sites that require users to login in order to view a site's content. AEM supports form-based authentication that requires a web site visitor to enter a user name and password, as shown in the following illustration.

AEM form-based authentication displays a login form (as shown in the previous illustration). When the user fills in the login form and submits the data, AEM stores the successful authentication in a Cookie or an HTTP Session. If the authentication is unsuccessful, then an error message is displayed.

By default, the URL of a form submission has to end with /j_security_check. That is, a login Form Action can POST to <anything>/j_security_check. For example:

<form action="${homePage.path}/j_security_check

The user name and password names must be j_username and j_password. For example:

<div class="form-group">
<label for="j_username">Username</label> <input type="text"
name="j_username">
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="j_password">Password</label> <input type="password"
name="j_password">
</div>

To read this development article, click https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/secure_sites.html.

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Invoking AEM Sling Servlets using Apache HTTP APIs

You can invoke a Sling Servlet deployed within Adobe Experience Manager by using Java APIs located in the org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient package. This Java package contains classes that let you perform HTTP operations such as invoking a Servlet's doGet method. For information about this Java package, see Package org.apache.commons.httpclient.

Assume that you have a business requirement to invoke a deployed AEM Sling Servlet from another AEM service defined within an OSGi bundle. You can perform this use case by using a org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient object.  

To read this development article, click: https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/HttpClient_AEM.html.

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Creating Interactive Video Components for Adobe Experience Manager

You can develop a custom video component for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) 6 that supports the ability to display information at specific time intervals. For example, assume that a marketing team wants to highlight or emphasize a product feature along with their product video. That is, to display text pointers or document links along with a webinar video. Given this requirement, you can develop an AEM video component that supports the following functionality:

• Lets an author specify timeline point(s) of a video when content is displayed.
• Lets an author specify the content what content to display.

The following illustration shows the custom interactive video component that is developed in this article.

To read this development article, click https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/creating-interactive-video.html.

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