OakUtils used to be the go-to tool for generating Oak Lucene indexes from AEM queries. It's gone now, so I built Oak Index Studio to replace it with reasoning attached to every attribute, not just JSON.
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Oak Index Studio: a free tool for generating AEM Oak Lucene indexes from your queryOakUtils used to be the go-to tool for generating Oak Lucene indexes from AEM queries. It's gone now, so I built Oak Index Studio to replace it with reasoning attached to every attribute, not just JSON.
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