Remote access of JCR repository in CQ5 | AEM

Follow the below steps to access the CQ5 JCR repository (CRX) remotely.

1. Construct the remote URL of your CQ instance.
1. e.g. http://localhost:4502/crx/server
2. Where localhost  is the host where CQ is running & 4502 is port where CQ is listening to the requests.
3. Get the repository by using the JCRUtils class which is available in the jackrabbit-jcr-commons.jar library.
1. repository = JcrUtils.getRepository("http://localhost:4502/crx/server");
4. Create a SimpleCredential object by passing username, password entries.
1. SimpleCredentials creds = new SimpleCredentials("admin", "admin".toCharArray());
5. Invoke the login method of repository object by passing the credential object & the workspace name.
1. Session session = repository.login(creds, "crx.default");

A code snippet for the above can be found below