[xwiki-devs] Fwd: [ANN] New Release of Apache Sling 6 - xwiki-devs@xwiki.org

18 Apr 2011

Just a note to mention that I find apache sling to be relatively similar to what we're
doing with XWiki: a web platform.

Sling is slightly more generic though whereas we're more wiki-oriented but a wiki
system could be implemented on top of Sling. 

I'm not suggesting that we move to sling I'm mentioning it so that we're aware
it exists and that it fits a similar need and can thus be considered a competitor when
considering XWiki as a platform for developing collaborative web applications.

Thanks
-Vincent

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  From: Felix Meschberger &lt;fmeschbe(a)apache.org&gt;
 Date: April 18, 2011 9:10:00 AM GMT+02:00
 To: Apache Announcements &lt;announce(a)apache.org&gt;rg>, Sling Users
&lt;users(a)sling.apache.org&gt;
 Subject: [ANN] New Release of Apache Sling 6

 Bringing Back the Fun

 Apache Sling brings back the fun to Java developers and makes the life
 of a web developer much easier. It combines current state of the art
 technologies and methods like OSGi, REST, scripting, and JCR.

 The main focus of Sling deals with the important task of bringing your
 content into the web and providing a platform to manage/update the
 content in a REST style.

 Sling is built as OSGi bundles and therefore benefits from all
 advantages of OSGi. On the development side a scripting layer
 (leveraging the Java Scripting API) allows to use any scripting language
 with Sling (of course you can use plain old Java, too). And on top of
 this, Sling helps in developing an application in a RESTful way.

 As the first web framework dedicated to JSR-283 Java Content
 Repositories, Sling makes it very simple to implement simple
 applications, while providing an enterprise-level framework for more
 complex applications. Underneath the covers Apache Jackrabbit is used
 for the repository implementation.

 Download the new release, Apache Sling 6, today and give it a try!

 Apache Sling currently comes in four flavors:
 - A standalone Java application (a jar containing everything to get
  started with Sling)
 - A web application (just drop this into your favorite web container)
 - The full source package (interested in reading the source?)
 - Maven Artifacts (available from the Central Maven Repository)

 For more information, please visit the Apache Sling web site at
 http://sling.apache.org/.

 or go directly to the download site at
 http://sling.apache.org/site/downloads.cgi

 For those interested in numbers: Since the Apache Sling 5
 announcement ...

  * 22 months have passed
  * 7 committers have been added to Apache Sling
  * 3 members have been added to the Apache Sling PMC
  * 158 releases have been cut and voted on
  * ~2800 commits have been sent to the SVN repository

 I would like to thank every user, contributor, committer and member of
 the PMC for their hard work and sometimes patience for making Apache
 Sling 6 a reality.

 On behalf of the the Apache Sling PMC
 Felix Meschberger 