Hi,

Am 14.11.2012 um 03:56 schrieb Wayne Lund:

> Why would you say sling is more elegant? I had the same issue a few years ago 
> and found it helpful to have the two. I thought sling's specialty was as a 
> RESTful API OVER JCR

It started as RESTful API *over JCR* and still the primary target is JCR. But 
with the Resource abstraction we support more than just JCR. Sling itself has 
support for bundle and filesystem resources and other implementations based 
LDAP, Git Repositories, MongoDB actually also exist.

Regards
Felix


> whereas spring mvc and now spring data allow me to have RESTful APIs over the 
> rest of the app. I know that's a little simplified because of implications of 
> overlapping functionality but at the big picture is that right or wrong?
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Nov 13, 2012, at 6:31 PM, Marty Phee <martyp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'm not sure either, but everyone knows spring and it makes change easier... 
>>  :-)
>> 
>> Thank you for the input. I'll give it a try tomorrow. 
>> 
>> On Nov 13, 2012, at 5:12 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
>>> 

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