[Proposal] Sling

2007-08-08 Thread Felix Meschberger
proposal on the Jackrabbit Dev List. See the proposal guide for a description of the expected proposal content. Abstract Sling is a framework to develop content centric web applications based on the idea of modularizing the rendering of HTTP resources. Proposal Sling allows easy development of web

Re: [Proposal] Sling

2007-08-08 Thread Alexandru Popescu ☀
Sling to the > Apache Incubator with a goal of becoming an Apache Jackrabbit > subproject. Discuss this proposal on the Jackrabbit Dev List. See the > proposal guide for a description of the expected proposal content. > > > Abstract > Sling is a framework to develop conten

Re: [Proposal] Sling

2007-08-08 Thread Alexandru Popescu ☀
On 8/8/07, Felix Meschberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Am Mittwoch, den 08.08.2007, 17:03 +0300 schrieb Alexandru Popescu ☀: > > Very interesting initiative Felix! Still, I am wondering why this > > would not start as a Jackrabbit contrib project, and I don't think I > > have seen t

Re: [Proposal] Sling

2007-08-08 Thread Felix Meschberger
Hi Alex, Am Mittwoch, den 08.08.2007, 17:03 +0300 schrieb Alexandru Popescu ☀: > Very interesting initiative Felix! Still, I am wondering why this > would not start as a Jackrabbit contrib project, and I don't think I > have seen this in the attached proposal. The reason for not simply adding it

RE: [Proposal] Sling

2007-08-09 Thread Felix Meschberger
Hi Noel, Am Mittwoch, den 08.08.2007, 23:12 -0400 schrieb Noel J. Bergman: > > As such each request URL addresses a Content object which in turn > > resolves to a Component, which finally is responsible for handling > > the request and providing a response. > > And this differs from a Servlet/Por

RE: [Proposal] Sling

2007-08-10 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Felix Meschberger wrote: > Noel J. Bergman: > > > As such each request URL addresses a Content object which in turn > > > resolves to a Component, which finally is responsible for handling > > > the request and providing a response. > > And this differs from a Servlet/Portlet, how? > With Servlet

Re: [Proposal] Sling

2007-08-11 Thread Alexandru Popescu ☀
On 8/11/07, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Felix Meschberger wrote: > > > Noel J. Bergman: > > [... snip ...] > > > Seems to me that you might want to consider a binding for JSR-286 Portlets > (using the Event mechanism to deliver the content to be rendered), rather > than create a to

RE: [Proposal] Sling

2007-08-13 Thread Felix Meschberger
Hi Noel, > Seems to me that you might want to consider a binding for JSR-286 Portlets > (using the Event mechanism to deliver the content to be rendered), rather > than create a totally new UI component framework. I can't see any reason > why the nested includes would be an issue. > > Just a tho

Re: [Proposal] Sling

2007-08-13 Thread Felix Meschberger
Am Donnerstag, den 09.08.2007, 09:27 -0700 schrieb Eelco Hillenius: > > I would like to propose a new Apache project named Sling. The proposal > > text is attached to this message and can also be found at [1]. > > +1. Thanks :-) > It seems to be primarily focussed on content delivery, not so muc

RE: [Proposal] Sling

2007-08-13 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Felix Meschberger wrote: > As Alex also pointed out, the goal is to have a flexible framework to > allow for different bindings. Ah, that was not clear from the proposal. I thought that you were planning to define your own, new, component model for delivering the content back to the requestor.

Re: [Proposal] Sling

2007-08-13 Thread Roy T. Fielding
I would just add that JSR-311 might also be an option. As an aside (and since you folks are on the Expert Group), do we know if JAX-RS will be under a suitable specification license, or has Sun encumbered it as they have other Sun-led specifications? We don't know. We won't implement JSR