How to Retrieve/Update the configuration details through Configuration Admin Service - Adobe Experience Manager(AEM)

How to Retrieve/Update the configuration details through Configuration Admin Service  - Adobe Experience Manager(AEM)

This post will explain how to Retrieve/Update the configuration details through Configuration Admin Service  in Adobe Experience Manager(AEM)

Java API

//Add the reference
@Reference
org.osgi.service.cm.ConfigurationAdmin configAdmin;

//Reterive/Update the configration

org.osgi.service.cm.Configuration config = configAdmin.getConfiguration("com.day.cq.mailer.DefaultMailService");
Dictionary d = config.getProperties();
String fromAddress=(String)d.get("from.address");
d.put("from.address", "[email protected]");
config.update(d);

Configuring proxy server details for HttpClient communication in Adobe Experience Manager(AEM)

Configuring proxy server details for HttpClient communication in Adobe Experience Manager(AEM)

This post will explain how to configure proxy server details for HttpClient communication in Adobe Experience Manager(AEM)

Go to config manager - http://localhot:4502/system/console/configMgr
Open Day Commons HTTP Client 3.1 and provide the proxy server details.

Check "Enable HTTP Proxy" and provide the HTTP Proxy Host and Port details.
If authentication required provide the proxy server user name and password.

Provide the host name and ip address for which the proxy is not required.

This proxy details will be used for all the communication happens via Apache HTTP commons. Client
This details will be used upon replication, if the proxy is not required to connect to publisher then add the publisher host name to No Proxy For list.

This proxy details will not be used if we are using HttpURLConnection for http communication.

Invoking NTLM authentication enabled service through Java

Invoking NTLM authentication enabled service through Java

Java API

The below program help us to invoke NTLM authentication enabled services.

import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.NTCredentials;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.PostMethod;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.StringRequestEntity;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.AuthScope;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpStatus;

public class NTLMAuthentication {

public String invokeService(String url, String soapMessage) {
String responseString = null;
try {

HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
PostMethod postMethod = new PostMethod(url);
postMethod.setRequestEntity(new StringRequestEntity(soapMessage,"text/xml","utf-8"));
postMethod.setRequestHeader("SOAPAction", "http://www.service.com/GetEmployeeData");
postMethod.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "text/xml; charset=UTF-8");
NTCredentials credentials = new NTCredentials("username","password", "hostName", "domain");
client.getState().setCredentials(new AuthScope(null, -1, null), credentials);
int status = client.executeMethod(postMethod);
if (status == HttpStatus.SC_OK)
{
responseString = postMethod.getResponseBodyAsString();
}
} catch (Exception e) {

}
return responseString;

}

}

Building a executable JAR file with external libraries through JDeveloper

Building a executable JAR file with external libraries through JDeveloper

This post explain the different approaches to build the executable JAR file with external libraries through JDeveloper.

Referring the external libraries from JAR:

Right Click project and select properties
Click on Deployment and create new JAR deployment profile.
Select "Include Manifest File" option.
Select the main class.

Create a manifest file(any location) and add the required jar files to the Class-Path header

Class-Path.mf

Class-Path: json.jar log4j.jar

 End the Class-Path.mf file by a carriage return.

Add the Class-Path.mf file to Additional Manifest Files to Merge into Manifest.mf

Encrypting/Decrypting data in Adobe Experience Manager(AEM)

Encrypting/Decrypting data in Adobe Experience Manager

com.adobe.granite.crypto.CryptoSupport service can be used to encrypt/decrypt the data in Adobe Experience Manager(AEM).

Maven Dependency:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.adobe.granite</groupId>
        <artifactId>com.adobe.granite.crypto</artifactId>
         <version>0.0.18</version>
         <scope>provided</scope>
 </dependency>

Service to encrypt/decrypt the message:

import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.Component;
import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.Reference;
import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.Service;
import com.adobe.granite.crypto.CryptoException;
import com.adobe.granite.crypto.CryptoSupport;

@Component(immediate = true, metatype = true)
@Service(value = EncrypionService.class)
public class EncrypionService {
@Reference
private CryptoSupport cryptoSupport;

public String encrypt(String plainText) throws Exception
{
try {
return cryptoSupport.protect(plainText);
} catch (CryptoException e) {
throw e;
}
}

public String decrypt(String encryptedText) throws Exception
{
try {
return cryptoSupport.unprotect(encryptedText);
} catch (CryptoException e) {
throw e;
}
}
}