On Saturday 04 October 2014 01:53:38 Stefan Seifert wrote: hi Stefan,
> this proposal is about context-specific configuration, that means > configuration that cannot be stored as OSGi configurations. OSGi > configurations are always system-wide, so they are not well-suited for > storing configurations per context e.g. site, region or tenant. this is > related to the multitenancy discussion on this list, see [1] for a summary > of the past discussion. > > we've implementation a solution for this and are currently thinking about > donating it to Apache Sling. a documentation of what is currently > implemented is at [2]. the most relevant pages you should read are [3], > [4], [5], [6]. the implementation is based on the requirements from [7], > although not all that is listed on that page is implemented currently (but > a good deal of it). source code is at [8], a sample application at [9]. > > the current implementation is targeted to a specific sling-based CMS - but > besides the configuration editor and the parameter persistence provider it > does not depend on the CMS API but only on the Sling APIs, being > technically suited to be donated to Apache Sling. it's already published > under apache license 2.0. > > i'm interested if there is more need in the community for solving the > requirements i've listed, and the solutions we have implemented for it. and > if there are other sling committers who want to take part in its > development and enhancement as well. although we're using the current > implementation from wcm.io already in our projects nothing of it's current > architecture is carved in stone and i'm open to broaden the scope of > requirements it should support. > > WDYT? what's the status here? Will you move this project to Sling? Is it possible to read/write configurations of the current resource only or are configurations always collected up the tree? Thanks, O. > stefan > > > [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/zJBcAg > [2] http://wcm.io/config/ > [3] http://wcm.io/config/api/terminology.html > [4] http://wcm.io/config/api/usage-api.html > [5] http://wcm.io/config/api/usage-spi.html > [6] http://wcm.io/config/editor/usage.html > [7] https://wcm-io.atlassian.net/wiki/x/HIAH > [8] https://github.com/wcm-io/wcm-io/tree/master/config > [9] http://wcm.io/samples/config-sample-app/
