The AEM Maven

BYOM, or Bring Your Own Markup, is a feature of AEM Edge Delivery Services that opens up more possibilities than most people realize. In this post I explore two ways to use it: as a primary content source and as an overlay. Using JSON-LD injection as a practical example, I show how BYOM can serve as the foundation for your own composable architecture solutions.

RepoInit scripts are a great way to deploy your RBAC model in AEM. This guide presents practical patterns for creating groups, assigning baseline permissions, and fine-tuning access control.

If your team needs review steps before content goes live, this guide explains how to enable Request for Activation and Deactivation workflows using AEM’s permissions and publication wizard.

SOAP may be legacy, but it still powers critical enterprise systems. If your AEM project needs to integrate with SOAP, you’ve got choices: push for REST, use SAAJ, or lean on Apache CXF. Here’s a practical guide to making it work in 2025.