Extending ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Experience Manager as a Cloud Service using ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Developer App Builder extend-using-app-builder
What is App Builder for AEM as a Cloud Service project-appbuilder
The new ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Developer App Builder provides an extensibility framework for a developer to easily extend functionalities in AEM as a Cloud Service.
App Builder provides a unified third-party extensibility framework for integrating and creating custom experiences that extend ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Experience Manager. With this complete extensibility framework, built on ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ’s infrastructure, developers can build custom microservices, extend, and integrate ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Experience Manager across ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ solutions and the rest of the IT stack.
App Builder provides a way for customers to easily extend ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Experience Manager in various use cases:
- Middleware Extensibility - Connect external systems with ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ applications building custom connectors or use a suite of pre-built integrations.
- Core Services Extensibility - Extend core application capabilities by extending the default behavior with custom features & business logic.
- User Experience Extensibility - Extend core experience to support business requirements or build customer-specific digital properties, storefronts & back-office apps.
Architecture architecture
Instead of an out-of-the-box solution, ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Developer App Builder provides a common, consistent, standardized development platform for extending ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Cloud solutions such as AEM including:
- ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Developer Console - For custom microservice and extension development, letting developers build and manage projects while accessing all the tools and APIs needed so they can create plugins and integrations.
- Developer Tools - Open-source tools, SDKs, and libraries to allow developers to easily build custom extensions and integrations. Use React Spectrum (ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ’s UI toolkit) so you have one common user interface for all ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ apps.
- Services - I/O Runtime for hosting infrastructure on ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ’s serverless platform, and I/O Events for event-based integrations. ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ also provides out-of-the-box support for storing data and files.
- ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Experience Cloud - Developers can submit extensions and integrations to be published within their Experience Cloud Org. System admins can then review, manage, and approve these extensions. Once published, your custom App Builder extensions and tools can be found alongside other ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Experience Cloud apps.
The following diagram illustrates how a standard application built on App Builder uses these functionalities:
For more details about the App Builder architecture, have a look at
Get Started with App Builder additional-resources
ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ created Getting Started documentation so you can get started with App Builder:
Continue learning with Documentation appbuilder-documentation
App Builder provides videos and documentation for developers including guides, and reference documentation to help you begin developing your own custom applications:
Try Out One of the Sample Applications appbuilder-codesamples
Ready to start developing? ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ has lots of sample applications to help you get going quickly: