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Posted by Cedric Huesler JUL 15, 2011

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What kept us busy lately - CRX and CQ5 as part of Adobe

Back in June we announced the Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform. The products you know - CRX and CQ5 - are now part of this platform - in fact - they are part of the foundation of this platform. Let's focus on CRX first:

The server companion for Flex

The Content Repository CRX with it's OSGi container and RESTful Web Framework Sling got extended to cover new use cases.

It has become the server companion for applications build with Adobe Flex. One example: we added support for new protocols e.g. AMF and RTMP that Flex applications uses to communicate with the server. We went as far as making sure developers using Adobe Flash Builder building applications have transparent access to data sources connected on the server e.g. a SAP system and the content repository content. We call this feature set "Data Services"

The combination of the Content Repository + Data Services and on the client side: Flex with the Client Component Framework (in short: OSGi for Flex) + a single IDE Flash Builder, is the next evolution of rapid application development. Create applications that run in browsers with the Flash Player and with Adobe AIR on desktop, mobile phones, tablets and TVs. And yes - that includes our beloved iOS devices.

We call this extended CRX version "Experience Server" - and when we talk about the feature set - we call them "Experience Services"

To learn more about building Flex applications using the Content Repository start here: .. and I'm sure you are very familiar with that already.


• You find more YouTube sessions on Flex with CRX on: http://www.youtube.com/user/ADEPDevelopers
• and check the Enterprise Platform Techies blog: https://blogs.adobe.com/eptech/

But that's not everything..

A new bridge to PDF

Wouldn't it be great to be able to do all the crazy things you can do with PDF (trust me.. it was a revelation for me) right out of your favorite Content Repository? We thought so too.

The technical solution is like that: We provide OSGi-based services to talk to the various PDF treatment services that are off-loading the bulk of the work to other servers (we call them "Document Services") - while you as a developer have a local Java API to talk to.

CQ5 is Web Experience Management

You are going to see us using the term Web Experience Management - short WEM - when talking about the CQ5 capabilities. The reason is because we are coupling the features of the Adobe Online Marketing Suite (aka Omniture) and the Adobe Creative Suite (yes Photoshop..) with CQ5 and this combination deserves a new name.

Read more about Adobe Online Marketing Suite integration on the Omniture Blog.

While we are busy finishing the bits internally - you can sign-up to get a notification when the trial version will become available. This form gets you on the list.


Posted by Gabriel Walt JUL 11, 2011

Posted in conferences, cq5 and sling Comment 1



.adaptTo(Berlin) Meetup for Apache Sling & CQ5 Developers

A great tech meetup, sweetly named .adaptTo(Berlin) is being organized by Dominik Süß (pro!vision GmbH) on September 15th and 16th in the Betahaus, Berlin. Adobe is the main sponsor of this event, along with pro!vision GmbH who will act as host.


The topic is the Apache Sling technical stack. It is adressed to all developers working with this open source stack, with the second day mainly focused on CQ5 and Sling-based solutions from other vendors.

The agenda is still to be announced, but there will be several of our top Sling & CQ5 engineers talking. So not only will you certainly learn a lot, but this is also the opportunity for you to actively participate to the future of the Sling-stack if you wish.




.adaptTo(Berlin) is planned as an interactive meetup with talks from the community. You too, contribute your knowledge to the community and talk during one of the 45 or 90 minute slots! Adobe developers will give some talks, but we would be pleased to have various speakers and encourage you to present your solutions.

Speakers should submit their proposals as soon as possible, since the organizers want to publish a draft agenda at mid-August. Please post your topic to the wiki page till August 5th and send Dominik the slides, or a description of your talk till August 12th.

Posted by Cedric Huesler MAY 10, 2011

Posted in cq5, crx and tutorials Comments 5



Developer Sessions for CRX and CQ5

Back in April - Gabriel Walt and myself - recorded two sessions for CQ5 and CRX developers - both based on CRX 2.2 and CQ 5.4 released earlier this year.

In our office in Basel - while on air - Gabriel sharing the insight on how the mobile site rendering works with CQ 5.4:




 

Both session are around 60mins and have been recorded with Adobe Connect.

The 1st session is for people new to CRX and the "Content Repository". This is a good session to get started - with coding examples. We cover:


• What is a Content Repository and how does it work
• Comparison to relational database
• Benefits of the OSGi platform
• Open Source projects included in CRX
• Demo of building an app with CRX
• Deployment options and clustering

Sign-in to watch recording of CRX Session


You can download the CRX 2.2 with the free Developer Edition license from day.com.

The 2nd session is for experienced CQ5 developers - good for people that worked with previous releases of CQ5. We are touching some of the new features in 5.4 and explain the concepts and show demos. We cover:


• Mobile Device Capability and Device Group
• Configurable roll-out configuration for LiveCopy
• Improve page speed with ClientLibs
• HTML5 Video Component and Transcoding Profiles
• Workflow-based reverse-replication & user generated content moderation
• Integration with SiteCatalyst and custom events tracking

Sign-in to watch recording of CQ5 Session


Enjoy.

Note: The login to watch the recording is using the "Adobe ID". If you already have an Adobe ID because you happened to be Adobe customer e.g. using Creative Suite or other products - use this account. If you don't have an Adobe ID yet - take a few minutes to create one. Going forward - we are going to use Adobe ID to make stuff available to you.

Posted by Kas Thomas APR 21, 2011

Posted in cq5, ipad, iphone, mobile, the web and tools Comments 2



Are you ready to leverage the Mobile Internet?

With tablet and smart-phone shipments eclipsing PC and laptop shipments -- and with new mobile broadband connections far exceeding the number of new fixed broadband connections  -- it's clear that a tipping point in thie history of the internet has been reached. Which means that now may be as good a time as any to ask yourself: Are you well-positioned to leverage the Mobile Internet?


Former Morgan Stanley research analyst Mary Meeker (now a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers) recently gave a state of the Mobile Internet presentation at Google. Slides from that presentation can be seen here:

Top 10 Mobile Internet Trends (Feb 2011)

The slideshow is full of mindblowing numbers, charts, and observations. Some of the leading takeaways:

• Mobile Internet data traffic is expected to grow by 26X over next 5 years
• Mobile Internet devices are expected to reach 10X the billion-or-so devices on today’s Desktop Internet
• The Mobile Internet is growing much faster than the Desktop Internet did
• The Mobile Internet will be a much bigger phenomenon than most people think
• One of the big growth drivers is the Tablet

The last point is worth emphasizing. Did you know that in its first 3 months, Apple's iPad outsold the iPod and iPhone (combined) by a factor of 3.5? Or that Gartner is predicting that by 2013, there will be as many tablets in use in the enterprise as there are PCs?


The fact is, we have entered a world in which realtime 24/7 broadband connectivity in the palm of one's hand is the new baseline.


This means that the majority of software interactions will (from this point forward) be occurring on handheld devices. If you're not poised to take advantage of this, you will soon be in a small (and diminishing) minority.

That's why Adobe Dreamweaver, Flash Builder, and CQ5 offer crossplatform mobile development and deployment options. And it's why you'll want to take an especially close look at the new release of the Adobe Enterprise Platform when it arrives soon. To take full advantage of Mobile, you need world-class design tools and runtime infrastructure that were created with Mobile in mind. Anything less is (or should be) unacceptable -- unless you're planning to live in the past.

 

Posted by Kas Thomas APR 19, 2011

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Adobe CQ documentation now available as PDF

From time to time, people ask us if our product documentation is available in PDF. I pleased to be able to say that the answer is yes. Thanks to the recent work of Chris Zumbrunn and other members of the documentation team, we can now offer a single, consolidated PDF document (2258 pages in length) comprising all of the available documentation for CQ 5.4 and CRX 2.2 (with the exception of Java API documentation, which is still HTML-only).


The PDF documentation is here (approximately 60 megabytes).


Of course, while it's very handy to be able to have a searchable, page-numbered, printable (in A4 format) copy of the documentation at your fingertips, it's important to remember that CQ documentation is constantly undergoing revision and refinement, which means the online (HTML) documentation at docs.day.com will always be the most current, up-to-date source of information on CQ and CRX. Always check the online docs when you want the latest information.