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How to resolve Adobe Experience Manager(AEM) pointing to Search and Promote(S&P) Stage environment?

Recently i have faced a issues on AEM publisher pointing to Search and Promote(S&P) stage environment irrespective of the environment configuration in OSGI configuration( Adobe Search&Promote Integration )

How to confirm AEM is pointing to S&P stage environment:

Check the content of searchformxml property from /etc/cloudservices/search-promote/<<S&P Config Name>>/jcr:content and check the <action> URL

Stage - <action>http://stage.xxxxx.guided.ss-omtrdc.net</action>
Live - <action>http://xxxxx.guided.ss-omtrdc.net</action>

The following steps can be followed as a workaround:

Decode the data if it is already encoded(HTML Decoder) - searchformxml property from /etc/cloudservices/search-promote/<<S&P Config Name>>/jcr:content

Remove <input type="hidden" name="sp_staged" value="1" />

Change the following URLs to point to live configuration

//content.atomz.com/xxxxx/stage/autocomplete_data.js to //content.atomz.com/xxxxx/publish/autocomplete_data.js
//content.atomz.com/xxxxx/stage/autocomplete_styles.css to //content.atomz.com/xxxxx/publish/autocomplete_styles.css

Change the action to point to live URL

<action>http://stage.xxxxx.guided.ss-omtrdc.net</action> to <action>http://xxxxx.guided.ss-omtrdc.net</action>


e.g - this will be different based on your S&P configuration

<searchform>
<autocomplete>
<enabled>1</enabled>
<css><![CDATA[<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="//content.atomz.com/xxxxxx/publish/autocomplete_styles.css?sp_css_param=1" />]]></css>
<form-content><![CDATA[<div id="autocomplete"></div>]]></form-content>
<javascript><![CDATA[<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/yui/2.8.0r4/build/utilities/utilities.js" ></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/yui/2.8.0r4/build/datasource/datasource-min.js" ></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/yui/2.8.0r4/build/autocomplete/autocomplete-min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="//content.atomz.com/xxxxxx/publish/autocomplete_data.js?sp_js_param=5"></script>]]></javascript>
</autocomplete> <tnt> <enabled>0</enabled> <form-content><![CDATA[<div id="tntMBox"></div>]]></form-content> <javascript><![CDATA[<script type="text/javascript">
(function(){var searchTextBoxId='q';var mboxContainerId='tntMBox';var mboxName='searchParamMbox';function removeEventSimple(obj,evt,fn)
{if(obj.removeEventListener)
obj.removeEventListener(evt,fn,false);else if(obj.detachEvent)
obj.detachEvent('on'+evt,fn);}
function addEventSimple(obj,evt,fn)
{if(obj.addEventListener)
obj.addEventListener(evt,fn,false);else if(obj.attachEvent)
obj.attachEvent('on'+evt,fn);}
function setSearchFormMbox()
{mboxDefine(mboxContainerId,mboxName);mboxUpdate('searchParamMbox');removeEventSimple(el,'keydown',setSearchFormMbox);}
var el=document.getElementById(searchTextBoxId);if(el)
addEventSimple(el,'keydown',setSearchFormMbox);})();</script>
]]></javascript> </tnt> <form>
<name>searchform</name>
<id>searchform</id>
<action>http://xxxxxx.guided.ss-omtrdc.net</action>
<inputs>
<input>
<type><![CDATA[text]]></type>
<id><![CDATA[q]]></id>
<name>q</name>
<value></value>
</input>
<input>
<type><![CDATA[submit]]></type>
<value><![CDATA[Search]]></value>
</input>
</inputs>
</form>
</searchform>

If the same S&P configuration with live option is enabled in any other server then copy and replace the value of searchformxml in /etc/cloudservices/search-promote/<<S&P Config Name>>/jcr:content

I have faced this issue in Adobe Experience Manager(AEM) 6.2 version

Different approaches to calculate content/DAM folders size in Adobe Experience Manager(AEM)

In Adobe Experience Manager(AEM), there is no direct approach to get the size of the specific content node or DAM.

This post explains the different approach to calculate the size for specific content or DAM path

Creating package through package manager:

Create the package through package manager for specific content/DAM path.
Build and download the package and calculate the size.




This approach will create space issue in server while creating the packages.

Calculate size through WebDav client:

Use any WebDav client to calculate the size of the DAM folders, I have used WinScp tool for size calculation







This approach
- Can be only used for DAM assets as HTML contents are mapped as folders in WedbDav(AEM configuration)
- Can be only used in WebDav enabled AEM instances

I was getting the below exception while connecting to AEM JCR repository through Java API(JCR webdav) using Jcr2davRepositoryFactory.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.slf4j.helpers.MessageFormatter.format(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/Object;)Lorg/slf4j/helpers/FormattingTuple;
at org.slf4j.impl.Log4jLoggerAdapter.debug(Log4jLoggerAdapter.java:229)
at org.apache.jackrabbit.jcr2spi.Jcr2spiRepositoryFactory$RepositoryConfigImpl.getCacheBehaviour(Jcr2spiRepositoryFactory.java:272)
at org.apache.jackrabbit.jcr2spi.Jcr2spiRepositoryFactory$RepositoryConfigImpl.<init>(Jcr2spiRepositoryFactory.java:229)
at org.apache.jackrabbit.jcr2dav.Jcr2davRepositoryFactory.getRepository(Jcr2davRepositoryFactory.java:104)
at org.apache.jackrabbit.jcr2dav.Jcr2davRepositoryFactory.getRepository(Jcr2davRepositoryFactory.java:87)
at workarea.core.GetRepositorySize.main(GetRepositorySize.java:25)

To fix the issue add the slf4j-log4j12 with lower version and also exclude jcl-over-slf4j from jackrabbit-jcr2dav dependency.

<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
    <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
    <version>1.5.0</version>
</dependency>
 
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.jackrabbit/jackrabbit-jcr2dav -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.jackrabbit</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackrabbit-jcr2dav</artifactId>
    <version>2.17.1</version>
    <scope>provided</scope>
    <exclusions>     
        <exclusion>
        <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
        <artifactId>jcl-over-slf4j</artifactId>
        </exclusion>
    </exclusions>
</dependency>

Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/management/InstanceAlreadyExistsException while connecting to Oracle Database from OSGI - Adobe Experience Manager(AEM)

I was getting the below exception while connecting to the Oracle 11g database using ojbdc6.jar from OSGI in Adobe Experience Manager(AEM)

20.02.2018 15:43:39.259 *INFO* [CM Event Dispatcher (Fire ConfigurationEvent: pid=com.day.commons.datasource.jdbcpool.JdbcPoolService.c26da860-d7f1-4e63-9b2c-1138a6bafaeb)] day.commons.datasource.jdbcpool Configuring and activating data source with name=SampleOracleDS
20.02.2018 15:43:39.260 *ERROR* [CM Event Dispatcher (Fire ConfigurationEvent: pid=com.day.commons.datasource.jdbcpool.JdbcPoolService.c26da860-d7f1-4e63-9b2c-1138a6bafaeb)] day.commons.datasource.jdbcpool [com.day.commons.datasource.jdbcpool.JdbcPoolService(2238)] The activate method has thrown an exception (java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot initialize driver 'oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver')
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot initialize driver 'oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver'
at com.day.commons.datasource.jdbcpool.JdbcPoolService.initalizeDriver(JdbcPoolService.java:301)
at com.day.commons.datasource.jdbcpool.JdbcPoolService.setupDataSource(JdbcPoolService.java:227)
at com.day.commons.datasource.jdbcpool.JdbcPoolService.activate(JdbcPoolService.java:174)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.helper.BaseMethod.invokeMethod(BaseMethod.java:222)
at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.helper.BaseMethod.access$500(BaseMethod.java:37)
at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.helper.BaseMethod$Resolved.invoke(BaseMethod.java:615)
at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.helper.BaseMethod.invoke(BaseMethod.java:499)
at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.helper.ActivateMethod.invoke(ActivateMethod.java:295)
at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.manager.SingleComponentManager.createImplementationObject(SingleComponentManager.java:302)
at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.manager.SingleComponentManager.createComponent(SingleComponentManager.java:113)
at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.manager.SingleComponentManager.getService(SingleComponentManager.java:832)
at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.manager.SingleComponentManager.getServiceInternal(SingleComponentManager.java:799)
at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.manager.SingleComponentManager.getService(SingleComponentManager.java:749)
at org.apache.felix.framework.ServiceRegistrationImpl.getFactoryUnchecked(ServiceRegistrationImpl.java:343)
at org.apache.felix.framework.ServiceRegistrationImpl.getService(ServiceRegistrationImpl.java:243)
at org.apache.felix.framework.ServiceRegistry.getService(ServiceRegistry.java:357)
at org.apache.felix.framework.Felix.getService(Felix.java:3671)
at org.apache.felix.framework.BundleContextImpl.getService(BundleContextImpl.java:470)
at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.manager.SingleRefPair.getServiceObject(SingleRefPair.java:72)
at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.helper.BindMethod.getServiceObject(BindMethod.java:576)
at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.manager.DependencyManager.getServiceObject(DependencyManager.java:2037)
at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.manager.DependencyManager.invokeUnbindMethod(DependencyManager.java:1712)
at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.manager.SingleComponentManager.invokeUnbindMethod(SingleComponentManager.java:392)
at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.manager.DependencyManager$MultipleDynamicCustomizer.removedService(DependencyManager.java:372)
at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.manager.DependencyManager$MultipleDynamicCustomizer.removedService(DependencyManager.java:303)
at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.manager.ServiceTracker$Tracked.customizerRemoved(ServiceTracker.java:1518)
at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.manager.ServiceTracker$Tracked.customizerRemoved(ServiceTracker.java:1413)
at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.manager.ServiceTracker$AbstractTracked.untrack(ServiceTracker.java:1273)
at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.manager.ServiceTracker$Tracked.serviceChanged(ServiceTracker.java:1452)
at org.apache.felix.framework.util.EventDispatcher.invokeServiceListenerCallback(EventDispatcher.java:987)
at org.apache.felix.framework.util.EventDispatcher.fireEventImmediately(EventDispatcher.java:838)
at org.apache.felix.framework.util.EventDispatcher.fireServiceEvent(EventDispatcher.java:545)
at org.apache.felix.framework.Felix.fireServiceEvent(Felix.java:4547)
at org.apache.felix.framework.Felix.access$000(Felix.java:106)
at org.apache.felix.framework.Felix$1.serviceChanged(Felix.java:436)
at org.apache.felix.framework.ServiceRegistry.unregisterService(ServiceRegistry.java:165)
at org.apache.felix.framework.ServiceRegistrationImpl.unregister(ServiceRegistrationImpl.java:140)
at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.manager.AbstractComponentManager$3.unregister(AbstractComponentManager.java:883)
at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.manager.AbstractComponentManager$3.unregister(AbstractComponentManager.java:857)
at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.manager.RegistrationManager.changeRegistration(RegistrationManager.java:140)
at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.manager.AbstractComponentManager.unregisterService(AbstractComponentManager.java:925)
at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.manager.AbstractComponentManager.doDeactivate(AbstractComponentManager.java:774)
at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.manager.AbstractComponentManager.deactivateInternal(AbstractComponentManager.java:757)
at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.manager.SingleComponentManager.reconfigure(SingleComponentManager.java:601)
at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.manager.SingleComponentManager.reconfigure(SingleComponentManager.java:552)
at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.config.ConfigurableComponentHolder.configurationUpdated(ConfigurableComponentHolder.java:419)
at org.apache.felix.scr.impl.config.ConfigurationSupport.configurationEvent(ConfigurationSupport.java:297)
at org.apache.felix.cm.impl.ConfigurationManager$FireConfigurationEvent.sendEvent(ConfigurationManager.java:2032)
at org.apache.felix.cm.impl.ConfigurationManager$FireConfigurationEvent.run(ConfigurationManager.java:2002)
at org.apache.felix.cm.impl.UpdateThread.run(UpdateThread.java:103)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/management/InstanceAlreadyExistsException
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at com.day.commons.datasource.jdbcpool.JdbcPoolService.initalizeDriver(JdbcPoolService.java:299)
... 54 common frames omitted
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.management.InstanceAlreadyExistsException not found by com.jdbc.oracle [446]
at org.apache.felix.framework.BundleWiringImpl.findClassOrResourceByDelegation(BundleWiringImpl.java:1557)
at org.apache.felix.framework.BundleWiringImpl.access$400(BundleWiringImpl.java:79)
at org.apache.felix.framework.BundleWiringImpl$BundleClassLoader.loadClass(BundleWiringImpl.java:1998)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
... 59 common frames omitted

Based on the analysis the classes required by the ojdbc.jar is missing in the generated bundle.

Steps to fix the issue -

Refer the following post for complete steps to integrate Adobe Experience Manager(AEM) with Oracle Database - https://www.albinsblog.com/2015/03/how-to-connect-to-oracle-database-using.html

Add the below Import-Package in META-INF\MANIFEST.MF file

Import-Package: javax.sql, javax.naming, javax.management, org.ietf.jgss

• Generate the bundle by adding the above configuration(Export --> Deployable plug-ins and fragments)
• Delete the bundle if already exist in the server
• Install the updated bundle
• Restart the server
• Test the integration

How to extend the OOB Adobe Experience Manager(AEM) Hybris connector

Approach to implement content preview environment in Adobe Experience Manager(AEM)

By default Adobe Experience Manager(AEM) not provides the preview instance to preview the content before publishing to live environment but most of the cases preview is required before publishing the content to live environment.

This post explain the approach to preview and approve the content before publishing to live environment.

The below diagram explains the preview flow

• Author creates the content in production author and start the workflow
• Workflow sends the content to Stage author and Publishers
• Workflow assign the task to approver group and send the notification email
• Approver reviews the content in stage environment and approve or reject the content (workflow)t - provides the detailed information for rejection
• if the content is approved 
• Workflow sends the approved content to production publishers.
• If the content is rejected
• Workflow assign the task to author and sends the notification
• Author review the details and completes the workflow
• Start the process again by correcting the content

Define Replication process step with ECMA script:

How to integrate Adobe Experience Manager(AEM) and SAP Hybris through OOB connector

This post explains the detailed steps for AEM and Hybris integration through OOB connector. AEM comes with default Hybris connector and sample demo site(should be downloaded via package manager), the steps covered in the post is for integrating AEM 6.3 with Hybris 6.1 but the same steps works for other AEM and Hybris versions with minimal changes.

AEM Configuration:

Install JDK 8
Install AEM 6.3 server
Install cq-geometrixx-all-pkg-5.10.68.zip, cq-geometrixx-hybris-content-6.3.2.zip and cq-hybris-content-6.3.2.zip packages from package share (I am considering geo-metrixx for demo, we.retail should be the recommended one in AEM 6.3)


Change the Hybris server version in "Day CQ Commerce Hybris Configuration", ignore to default value if the specified version is not listed.


Change the Hybris OAuth endpoint in "Hybris OAuth Handler" based on the Hybris version, /authorizationserver/oauth/token for Hybirs 6 and later and /rest/oauth/token for earlier Hybris versions   - This step can be ignored for AEM 6.3 as the connectes defaults the values based on the Hybris version selected in the previous step.


If the OAuth URL is not configured with correct value then the below exception will be displayed in error log

com.adobe.cq.commerce.hybris.impl.OAuthHandler Server did not respond with 2xx -> authentication failed.