How To Setup AEM Forms In Local Machine

AEM Forms' Setup

In this blog we will discus how to setup the AEM Forms in your local machine.

We are going to setup using AEM on-premise. To setup we need the following setup.

• AEM Jar 6.5(On-Premise).
• AEM Service Pack(6.5.18/Latest).
• AEM Forms add on package.

You can download the setup from Adobe software distribution portal.

URL:-https://experience.adobe.com/

Note:-You should have adobe id to download all these setup.

We have downloaded the all 3 setup you can see

AEM Jar:

 AEM Service Pack

AEM Forms' add on

Create a folder/Directory in your machine and keep all 3 files inside it. AEM Jar is a jar file and jar stands to java archive it's collection of .class file in compressed form. And AEM Service pack and add-on package are the packages. We will discus now how to proceed with this setup.

Create a folder inside your setup with name Author and copy paste the jar file inside it. We have to follow some steps .

1. Install the AEM Server.

You have to open the command prompt/terminal in the location where you have AEM Jar file and you have to run the command (java -jar aem-author-p4504.jar -gui)

Note:-My AEM jar is present in the Author folder. 

You will be able to see this

It will take some time after that you will be able to see the login page like 

you enter the admin in username and admin in password and now you can see the landing page of AEM like.

You can check the version of AEM by using 

You will be able to see the AEM version 6.5.0.

Step 2:Install the AEM service pack.

Go to the crx 

Select the AEM Service pack and install it. And wait for 15 minutes and check the version of AEM it will change from 6.5.0 to 6.5.18 because we  have downloaded the service pack 6.5.18. 

Step 3:-Upload and install the Forms' add on package in the same way as you upload and install the AEM Service pack. Now you can play with the forms in your AEM.

In next blog we will discus about the Type of AEM Forms and how to create out first Adaptive Form.