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{tm}Apache Sling{tm} is an innovative web framework that is intended to
+ Apache Sling™ is an innovative web framework that is intended to
bring back the fun to web development. Discussions about Sling happen on our mailing lists, see the Project Information
page for more info. Apache Sling is a web framework that uses a Java Content Repository
-, such as [Apache Jackrabbit|http://jackrabbit.apache.org/]
-, to store and manage content. Apache Sling is a web framework that uses a Java Content Repository, such as [Apache Jackrabbit|http://jackrabbit.apache.org/], to store and manage content. Sling applications use either scripts or Java servlets, selected based on
simple name conventions, to process HTTP requests in a RESTful way. The embedded Apache Felix
@@ -110,29 +106,25 @@ runtime.Apache Sling - Bringing Back the Fun!
- Apache Sling in five bullets points
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Apache Sling in a hundred words
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{excerpt-include:News|nopanel=true} * all news...
-Sling started as an internal project at Day Software , and entered the Apache Incubator in September 2007. As of June, 17th, 2009 Apache Sling is a top level project of the Apache Software Foundation.
The name "Sling" has been proposed by Roy Fielding who explained it like this:
-{quote} -[The name is](the-name-is.html) - Biblical in nature. The story of David: the weapon he uses to slay the -giant Goliath is a sling. Hence, our David's [David Nuescheler, CTO of -Day Software] favorite weapon.
++[The name is] Biblical in nature. The story of David: the weapon he +uses to slay the giant Goliath is a sling. Hence, our David's +[David Nuescheler, CTO of Day Software] favorite weapon.
+
It is also the simplest device for delivering content very fast. {quote}
-See Who is using Sling on our public wiki.
-If you prefer doing rather than reading, please proceed to Discover Sling in 15 minutes or read through the recommended links in the [Getting Started] @@ -146,7 +138,6 @@ page.
the information that they contain might be out of sync with the current Sling codebase. {note} -Day built a Wiki system on Sling. Each Wiki page is a node (with optional child nodes) in the repository. As a page is requested, the respective node @@ -175,7 +164,6 @@ happens to be in a node nested below the using the URL of the wiki page attaching the relative path of the attachement ode. The system resolves the URL to the attachement Content and just calls the attachement's Component to spool the attachement.
-Day has implemented a Digital Asset Management (DAM) Application based on Sling. Thanks to the flexibility of the Content/Component combo as well as @@ -183,7 +171,6 @@ the service registration/access function DAM for new content type is merely a matter of implementing one or two interfaces and registering the respective service(s).
Again, the managed assets may be easily spooled by directly accessing them.
-Last but not least, Sling offers itself very well to implementing a Web Content Management system. Thanks to the flexibility of rendering the @@ -192,9 +179,7 @@ URL resolves to a Content object for whi called to render the Content - providing support for Web Content authors (not PHP programmers but users out in the field) to build pages to their likings can easily be done.
-The main purpose of Sling is to develop a content-centric Web Application framework for Java Content Repository (JCR) based data stores. Sling is @@ -202,7 +187,6 @@ implemented - with the notable exception purely in terms of the JCR API and as such may use any JCR compliant repository. The default implementation for Apache Jackrabbit is provided out of the box.
-Sling is implemented as a series of OSGi Bundles and makes extensive use of the OSGi functionality, such as @@ -210,7 +194,6 @@ lifecycle management and the service lay several OSGi compendium services to be available, such as the Log Service, Http Service, Configuration Admin Service, Metatype Service, and Declarative Services.
-While Sling does not require a specific OSGi framework implementation to run in, Sling is being developed using Apache Felix @@ -221,7 +204,7 @@ such as [Equinox|http://www.eclipse.org/ .