Migrating from old aem archetype

To update your existing AEM Forms project with the latest maven archetype, you will have to manually copy your code/configurations etc., from the old project to the new project.

The following steps were followed to migrate the project created using archetype 30 to archetype 33 project

Create maven project using the latest archetype

  • Open command prompt and navigate to c:\cloudmanager
  • Create maven project using the latest archetype.
  • Copy and paste the content of the text file in your command prompt window. You may have to change the DarchetypeVersion=33 depending on the latest version. Archetype 33 includes new AEM Forms themes.
    Since we are creating the new maven project in the cloudmanager folder which already has aem-banking-application project, you should change the DartifactId from aem-banking-application to something different. I have used aem-banking-application1 for this article.
NOTE

If you deploy this new project as is the cloud service instance will not have HandleFormSubmission and the SubmitToAEMServlet. This is because every time you deploy a project using Cloud Manager anything under the /apps folder is deleted and overwritten.

Copy your java code

Once your project is successfully created, you can then start copying code/configurations etc., from old project to this new project

  • Copy the HandleFormSubmission servlet from C:\CloudManager\aem-banking-application\core\src\main\java\com\aem\bankingapplication\core\servlets
    to
    C:\CloudManager\aem-banking-application1\core\src\main\java\com\aem\bankingapplication\core\servlets

  • Copy the CustomSubmit from
    C:\CloudManager\aem-banking-application\ui.apps\src\main\content\jcr_root\apps\bankingapplication\SubmitToAEMServlet from aem-banking-application to aem-banking-application1 project

  • import the new project into IntelliJ

  • Update the filter.xml in the ui.apps module of the aem-banking-application1 project to include the following line
    <filter root="/apps/bankingapplication/SubmitToAEMServlet"/>

After you have copied all the code to your new project, you can push this project to cloud manager.

NOTE

To sync the content(Adaptive Forms,Form Data Model,etc.,)into your new project you will have to create the appropriate folder structure in your IntelliJ project and then sync your IntelliJ project with your AEM instance using the Get command of the repo tool.

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