Felix, With Spring MVC, instead of the SlingMainServlet dispatching requests based on sling resourceType, abs path, it would be attaching controllers based on mappings which could be paths or regex patterns and of course it'd tie into the spring way of doing things like form data binding, validations, error handling, etc.
I'd be interested to see how there could be multiple dispatching servlets in parallel in Felix with SlingMainServlet being one of them but I think it's not so easy so most likely the answer is to have one call the other based on some criteria. Of course, maybe if we turn this around the other way, it could be done using a custom resource provider but would that have to listen on calls under a certain path (e.g. /spring)? Somebody's tried to do this type of thing here although I don't think I've fully understood it: http://www.jasonday.net/content/running-spring-mvc-sling Sarwar On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Felix Meschberger <fmesc...@adobe.com>wrote: > Hi, > > Am 13.11.2012 um 23:35 schrieb Martin Phee: > > > New to sling. > > > > I'm trying a spring MVC sample and it needs a number of dependencies > > installed into sling. What the best way to add them all? Can I create a > > custom build of sling with these in it already? > > Yes, sure. Just add the respective Spring Bundles (must be OSGi bundles, > regular Spring JAR files don't work) to the bundle list in the Launchpad > Builder module and build it. > > Just one caveat: I am not sure, whether and how Spring MVC really works. > So we would be very interested to hear your experiences. > > In fact, I am not even sure, whether you gain much by using Spring MVC > together with Sling. Both try to solve the same problem, essentially. But > in my opinion Sling is more elegant. > > Regards > Felix > > > > We're starting a project > > and looking to use sling with spring MVC for the custom RESTful services. > > > > > > http://www.jasonday.net/content/running-spring-mvc-sling > >
