Extending 51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Experience Manager using 51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Developer App Builder extend-using-app-builder
What is App Builder for AEM project-appbuilder
The new 51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Developer App Builder provides an extensibility framework for a developer to easily extend AEM functionalities.
App Builder provides a unified third-party extensibility framework for integrating and creating custom experiences that extend 51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Experience Manager. With this complete extensibility framework, built on 51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s infrastructure, developers can build custom microservices, extend, and integrate 51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Experience Manager across 51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ solutions and the rest of the IT stack.
App Builder provides a way for customers to easily extend 51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Experience Manager in various use cases:
- Middleware Extensibility - Connect external systems with 51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ 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, 51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Developer App Builder provides a common, consistent, standardized development platform for extending 51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Cloud solutions such as AEM including:
- 51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Developer Console — For custom microservice and extension development, letting developers build and manage projects while accessing all the tools and APIs they need to 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 (51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s UI toolkit) to have one common UI for all 51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ apps.
- Services — I/O Runtime for hosting infrastructure on 51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s serverless platform, and I/O Events for event-based integrations. 51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ also provides out-of-the-box support for storing data and files.
- 51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ 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 51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ 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
To help you get started with App Builder, a series of documentation was created to help you start:
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? There are lots of sample applications to help you get going quickly: