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Getting Exception When Accessing Sightly Helper Class

  • March 10, 2016
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Hi All,

I have created helper class and written some of the utilities as part of it.Now when i am trying to access this inside my sightly component HTML ,getting below exception.

com.xxxx.dcom.sightly.helpers.components.HomePageBannerComponent POJO.
io.sightly.java.compiler.CompilerException: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.xxxx.dcom.sightly.helpers.components.HomePageBannerComponent
    at io.sightly.java.compiler.SightlyCompileServiceImpl.loadObject(SightlyCompileServiceImpl.java:137)
    at io.sightly.java.compiler.SightlyCompileServiceImpl.getInstance(SightlyCompileServiceImpl.java:80)
    at io.sightly.java.engine.extension.use.PojoUseProvider.provide(PojoUseProvider.java:65)
    at io.sightly.java.engine.extension.use.UseExtension$1.call(UseExtension.java:82)
    at io.sightly.java.runtime.common.SightlyRuntimeImpl.call(SightlyRuntimeImpl.java:51)
    at apps.dcom.dm.components.content.contentsection.homepagebanner.SightlyJava_homepagebanner.render(SightlyJava_homepagebanner.java:50)
    at io.sightly.java.api.BaseRenderUnit.render(BaseRenderUnit.java:39)
    at io.sightly.java.engine.SightlyScriptEngine.evaluateScript(SightlyScriptEngine.java:109)
    at io.sightly.java.engine.SightlyScriptEngine.eval(SightlyScriptEngine.java:93)
    at org.apache.sling.scripting.core.impl.DefaultSlingScript.call(DefaultSlingScript.java:361)
    at org.apache.sling.scripting.core.impl.DefaultSlingScript.eval(DefaultSlingScript.java:171)

Thanks,

Kishore

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Best answer by smacdonald2008

Can you follow this  article and see if that works: 

https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/creating-sightly-component.html

This will tell us if your issue is your environment. If this works - we can rule out an environment issue. 

13 replies

edubey
New Participant
March 10, 2016

Apart from wht scott mentioned:

Which AEM version?

Show you code please from component and java

Make sure you are exporting package

smacdonald2008
New Participant
March 10, 2016

Also - this months Ask the Experts is exactly this topic. If you are interested in knowing about AEM and Sightly - sign up here: 

http://scottsdigitalcommunity.blogspot.ca/2016/03/ask-aem-community-experts-deep-dive.html

smacdonald2008
New Participant
March 10, 2016

Hey Kishore -- looks like the Java class you are using for the Sightly component cannot be found. 2 things to check: 

1 - is the helper class extend com.adobe.cq.sightly.WCMUse

2 - is the bundle that you placed the class in an active state? 

For those reading this thread and wanting to know how to use Sightly and Java together - see this AEM Community article: 

https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/creating-sightly-component.html

We have more advanced Sightly ones too - for example: 

Creating a Sightly component that uses the AEM QueryBuilder API

Creating an AEM Sightly movie component

All of these show using Sightly on front end with Java on backend. 

Hope this helps