Hello, I'm a former CQ/AEM developer and architect. I'm evaluating the prospect of using Sling+Oak as the basis for a brand new WCM I'll build from scratch. Purchasing AEM is not an interest as we're looking to build something different.
I have a list of features which Day/Adobe solved with the CRX product, which are not available for me with the raw Sling product. I need to solve every one of those features myself if I'm going to use Sling. Of those features, the one I'm hung up on right now is repository import/export. I've done this easily with CRX packages in the past, which are apparently using the File Vault api under the hood to map XML-to-repo and repo-to-XML. So now I need help. Without CRX, how can I accomplish repo import/export? I might be willing to re-write something like the CRX package manager myself from scratch... I think. But obviously, I could save myself some *serious *time if there's an existing import/export solution. I'm sure I'm missing something - there's gotta be a slick way. I'd like to just resftully POST a package to Sling as I did with CRX, but if that's not an option, is the vlt command line tool my only option? If the command line tool is what I must use... how do I install it? There are no instructions at [1]. I have successfully built the filevault project from source, but the target directory doesn't yield a jar file with a "main" method declared in the manifest, so I don't know how to use that at the command line. Also, I have already seen the data import documentation at [2] and I believe it's not a valid repo import/export option. [1] http://jackrabbit.apache.org/filevault [2] https://sling.apache.org/documentation/bundles/manipulating-content-the-slingpostservlet-servlets-post.html#importing-content-structures -- Lance Dolan Software Developer 651.387.1059
