Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) can be run locally using the AEM as a Cloud Service SDK’s Quickstart Jar. This allows developers to deploy to, and test custom code, configuration, and content before committing it to source control, and deploying it to a AEM as a Cloud Service environment.
Follow aem local setup, all steps remain same except AEM SDK jar file.
Download the AEM as a Cloud Service SDK
- Open Software Distribution portal. Log in to https://experience.adobe.com/#/downloads with your Adobe ID
- Note that your Adobe Organization must be provisioned for AEM as a Cloud Service to download the AEM as a Cloud Service SDK.
- Navigate to the AEM as a Cloud Service tab
- Sort by Published Date in Descending order or search aem sdk in filters.
Adobe Software Distribution Portal - Click on the latest AEM SDK result row.
- Review and accept the EULA, and tap the Download button.
Extract the Quickstart Jar
Unzip the downloaded aem-sdk-XXX.zip file
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| aem sdk- verion extract |
You can see it has dispatcher in the same zip file.Ignore for now
Use cq-author jar for author setup. You can rename this jar to "aem-author-p4502.jar"
Create the folder
~/aem-sdk/author- Copy aem-author-p-4502.jar to author folder.
- Extract jar by
- java -jar aem-author-p-4502.jar
- Provide admin password as "admin".
Access the local AEM Author Service at http://localhost:4502 in a Web browser
Setup Publish Instance
Follow same steps for publish instance. Jar name would be "aem-publish-p4503.jar" and extract jar by:
java -jar aem-publish-p4503.jar.
Access the local AEM Publish Service at http://localhost:4503 in a Web browser.
Note:You cannot start the AEM as Cloud Service Quickstart Jar by double-clicking.
Happy Learning!
