Develop AEM project with IntelliJ and Using filevault connection | AEM 6.5 | Archetype 22

In this article we will go through following process to work in IntelliJ with AEM codebase:
1. Setup our maven AEM archetype 22 project.
2. Learn how to import it into IntelliJ IDE.
3. Using filevault to push and pull code from crx.

1. AEM Maven project setup:
   
   As I am using the archetype 22 to build my maven project, below is the maven command to create a maven project in local directory:
   
   mvn archetype:generate -B -DarchetypeGroupId=com.adobe.granite.archetypes -DarchetypeArtifactId=aem-project-archetype -DarchetypeVersion=22 -DgroupId=com.adobe.aem.guides -Dversion=0.0.1-SNAPSHOT -DappsFolderName=mycompany -DartifactId=aem-guides-mycompany -Dpackage=com.adobe.aem.guides.mycompany -DartifactName="MyCompany Sites Project" -DcomponentGroupName=MyCompany -DconfFolderName=mycompany -DcontentFolderName=mycompany -DcssId=mycompany -DisSingleCountryWebsite=n -Dlanguage_country=en_us -DoptionAemVersion=6.5.0 -DoptionDispatcherConfig=none -DoptionIncludeErrorHandler=n -DoptionIncludeExamples=y -DoptionIncludeFrontendModule=y -DpackageGroup=mycompany -DsiteName="MyCompany Site"

If you get a build failure message at end then please check for the settings.xml file at C:\Users\<user>\.m2
Below is the settings.xml file that I have used to build the project successfully as it contains Adobe Public Profile, you can copy the same at the above location:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

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<!--
 | This is the configuration file for Maven. It can be specified at two levels:
 |
 |  1. User Level. This settings.xml file provides configuration for a single user, 
 |                 and is normally provided in ${user.home}/.m2/settings.xml.
 |
 |                 NOTE: This location can be overridden with the CLI option:
 |
 |                 -s /path/to/user/settings.xml
 |
 |  2. Global Level. This settings.xml file provides configuration for all Maven
 |                 users on a machine (assuming they're all using the same Maven
 |                 installation). It's normally provided in 
 |                 ${maven.home}/conf/settings.xml.
 |
 |                 NOTE: This location can be overridden with the CLI option:
 |
 |                 -gs /path/to/global/settings.xml
 |
 | The sections in this sample file are intended to give you a running start at
 | getting the most out of your Maven installation. Where appropriate, the default
 | values (values used when the setting is not specified) are provided.
 |
 |-->
<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0" 
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">
    <!-- localRepository
   | The path to the local repository maven will use to store artifacts.
   |
   | Default: ~/.m2/repository
  <localRepository>/path/to/local/repo</localRepository>
  -->

    <!-- interactiveMode
   | This will determine whether maven prompts you when it needs input. If set to false,
   | maven will use a sensible default value, perhaps based on some other setting, for
   | the parameter in question.
   |
   | Default: true
  <interactiveMode>true</interactiveMode>
  -->

    <!-- offline
   | Determines whether maven should attempt to connect to the network when executing a build.
   | This will have an effect on artifact downloads, artifact deployment, and others.
   |
   | Default: false
  <offline>false</offline>
  -->

    <!-- pluginGroups
   | This is a list of additional group identifiers that will be searched when resolving plugins by their prefix, i.e.
   | when invoking a command line like "mvn prefix:goal". Maven will automatically add the group identifiers
   | "org.apache.maven.plugins" and "org.codehaus.mojo" if these are not already contained in the list.
   |-->
    <pluginGroups>
        <!-- pluginGroup
     | Specifies a further group identifier to use for plugin lookup.
    <pluginGroup>com.your.plugins</pluginGroup>
    -->
    </pluginGroups>

    <!-- proxies
   | This is a list of proxies which can be used on this machine to connect to the network.
   | Unless otherwise specified (by system property or command-line switch), the first proxy
   | specification in this list marked as active will be used.
   |-->
    <proxies>
        <!-- proxy
     | Specification for one proxy, to be used in connecting to the network.
     |
    <proxy>
      <id>optional</id>
      <active>true</active>
      <protocol>http</protocol>
      <username>proxyuser</username>
      <password>proxypass</password>
      <host>proxy.host.net</host>
      <port>80</port>
      <nonProxyHosts>local.net|some.host.com</nonProxyHosts>
    </proxy>
    -->
    </proxies>

    <!-- servers
   | This is a list of authentication profiles, keyed by the server-id used within the system.
   | Authentication profiles can be used whenever maven must make a connection to a remote server.
   |-->
    <servers>
        <!-- server
     | Specifies the authentication information to use when connecting to a particular server, identified by
     | a unique name within the system (referred to by the 'id' attribute below).
     | 
     | NOTE: You should either specify username/password OR privateKey/passphrase, since these pairings are 
     |       used together.
     |
    <server>
      <id>deploymentRepo</id>
      <username>repouser</username>
      <password>repopwd</password>
    </server>
    -->

        <!-- Another sample, using keys to authenticate.
    <server>
      <id>siteServer</id>
      <privateKey>/path/to/private/key</privateKey>
      <passphrase>optional; leave empty if not used.</passphrase>
    </server>
    -->
    </servers>

    <!-- mirrors
   | This is a list of mirrors to be used in downloading artifacts from remote repositories.
   | 
   | It works like this: a POM may declare a repository to use in resolving certain artifacts.
   | However, this repository may have problems with heavy traffic at times, so people have mirrored
   | it to several places.
   |
   | That repository definition will have a unique id, so we can create a mirror reference for that
   | repository, to be used as an alternate download site. The mirror site will be the preferred 
   | server for that repository.
   |-->
    <mirrors>
        <!-- mirror
     | Specifies a repository mirror site to use instead of a given repository. The repository that
     | this mirror serves has an ID that matches the mirrorOf element of this mirror. IDs are used
     | for inheritance and direct lookup purposes, and must be unique across the set of mirrors.
     |
    <mirror>
      <id>mirrorId</id>
      <mirrorOf>repositoryId</mirrorOf>
      <name>Human Readable Name for this Mirror.</name>
      <url>http://my.repository.com/repo/path</url>
    </mirror>
     -->
    </mirrors>

    <!-- profiles
   | This is a list of profiles which can be activated in a variety of ways, and which can modify
   | the build process. Profiles provided in the settings.xml are intended to provide local machine-
   | specific paths and repository locations which allow the build to work in the local environment.
   |
   | For example, if you have an integration testing plugin - like cactus - that needs to know where
   | your Tomcat instance is installed, you can provide a variable here such that the variable is 
   | dereferenced during the build process to configure the cactus plugin.
   |
   | As noted above, profiles can be activated in a variety of ways. One way - the activeProfiles
   | section of this document (settings.xml) - will be discussed later. Another way essentially
   | relies on the detection of a system property, either matching a particular value for the property,
   | or merely testing its existence. Profiles can also be activated by JDK version prefix, where a 
   | value of '1.4' might activate a profile when the build is executed on a JDK version of '1.4.2_07'.
   | Finally, the list of active profiles can be specified directly from the command line.
   |
   | NOTE: For profiles defined in the settings.xml, you are restricted to specifying only artifact
   |       repositories, plugin repositories, and free-form properties to be used as configuration
   |       variables for plugins in the POM.
   |
   |-->
    <profiles>
        <!-- profile
     | Specifies a set of introductions to the build process, to be activated using one or more of the
     | mechanisms described above. For inheritance purposes, and to activate profiles via <activatedProfiles/>
     | or the command line, profiles have to have an ID that is unique.
     |
     | An encouraged best practice for profile identification is to use a consistent naming convention
     | for profiles, such as 'env-dev', 'env-test', 'env-production', 'user-jdcasey', 'user-brett', etc.
     | This will make it more intuitive to understand what the set of introduced profiles is attempting
     | to accomplish, particularly when you only have a list of profile id's for debug.
     |
     | This profile example uses the JDK version to trigger activation, and provides a JDK-specific repo.
    <profile>
      <id>jdk-1.4</id>
 
      <activation>
        <jdk>1.4</jdk>
      </activation>
 
      <repositories>
        <repository>
          <id>jdk14</id>
          <name>Repository for JDK 1.4 builds</name>
          <url>http://www.myhost.com/maven/jdk14</url>
          <layout>default</layout>
          <snapshotPolicy>always</snapshotPolicy>
        </repository>
      </repositories>
    </profile>
    -->

        <!--
     | Here is another profile, activated by the system property 'target-env' with a value of 'dev',
     | which provides a specific path to the Tomcat instance. To use this, your plugin configuration
     | might hypothetically look like:
     |
     | ...
     | <plugin>
     |   <groupId>org.myco.myplugins</groupId>
     |   <artifactId>myplugin</artifactId>
     |   
     |   <configuration>
     |     <tomcatLocation>${tomcatPath}</tomcatLocation>
     |   </configuration>
     | </plugin>
     | ...
     |
     | NOTE: If you just wanted to inject this configuration whenever someone set 'target-env' to
     |       anything, you could just leave off the <value/> inside the activation-property.
     |
    <profile>
      <id>env-dev</id>
 
      <activation>
        <property>
          <name>target-env</name>
          <value>dev</value>
        </property>
      </activation>
 
      <properties>
        <tomcatPath>/path/to/tomcat/instance</tomcatPath>
      </properties>
    </profile>
    -->



        <!-- ====================================================== -->
        <!-- A D O B E   P U B L I C   P R O F I L E                -->
        <!-- ====================================================== -->
        <profile>
            <id>adobe-public</id>

            <activation>
                <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
            </activation>

            <properties>
                <releaseRepository-Id>adobe-public-releases</releaseRepository-Id>
                <releaseRepository-Name>Adobe Public Releases</releaseRepository-Name>
                <releaseRepository-URL>https://repo.adobe.com/nexus/content/groups/public</releaseRepository-URL>
            </properties>

            <repositories>
                <repository>
                    <id>adobe-public-releases</id>
                    <name>Adobe Public Repository</name>
                    <url>https://repo.adobe.com/nexus/content/groups/public</url>
                    <releases>
                        <enabled>true</enabled>
                        <updatePolicy>never</updatePolicy>
                    </releases>
                    <snapshots>
                        <enabled>false</enabled>
                    </snapshots>
                </repository>
            </repositories>

            <pluginRepositories>
                <pluginRepository>
                    <id>adobe-public-releases</id>
                    <name>Adobe Public Repository</name>
                    <url>https://repo.adobe.com/nexus/content/groups/public</url>
                    <releases>
                        <enabled>true</enabled>
                        <updatePolicy>never</updatePolicy>
                    </releases>
                    <snapshots>
                        <enabled>false</enabled>
                    </snapshots>
                </pluginRepository>
            </pluginRepositories>
        </profile>
    </profiles>

    <activeProfiles>
        <activeProfile>adobe-public</activeProfile>
    </activeProfiles>
</settings>

Once the build is successful, you will get the project structure created in your local directory.

Local project structure

2. Import project to IntelliJ IDE

Import Project

Select the root POM file

Use the default settings.

After clicking Next and Finish, project will be imported in the IntelliJ IDE

Now we will deploy this code to out local AEM instance and learn how to pull and push the code from crx

3. Filevault plugin:

We need to first install the IntellIj plugin by going to the plugin section in the settings (Ctrl + Alt + S )

After installation we should have a filevault zip which we will configure in the IntelliVaul. This used to be earlier avialable in AEM 6.2 at C:\Users\<user>\Documents\AEM 6.2\crx-quickstart\opt\filevault.

Download filevault from this link filevault.zip
You can reach out to me if you face any issue while downloading fielvault.zip plugin.

This file needs to be unzipped and placed in the same folder in AEM 6.5 and path (..\crx-quickstart\opt\filevault\vault-cli-3.1.6\bin) should be provided as part of configuration in IntelliJ.

Now as the code is deployed to the AEM localhost, we can create number of components and we can import them to our local repo in just few clicks using this vault tool.

I have created a testVault component as part of this demo, now I will try to pull this component to my local repo.

Node in AEM server

Now we will go to the parent node of the node that we want to sync and right and go the IntelliVault option and pull from CRX.

Now we can see the updated component in our local repo. This solves the problem of updating the local code with the code on the AEM server and now updated files are ready to push.


Reference : https://docs.adobe.com/content/help/en/experience-manager-learn/getting-started-wknd-tutorial-develop/project-setup.html