Just a note to mention that I find apache sling to be relatively similar to what we're doing with XWiki: a web platform.
Sling is slightly more generic though whereas we're more wiki-oriented but a wiki system could be implemented on top of Sling. I'm not suggesting that we move to sling I'm mentioning it so that we're aware it exists and that it fits a similar need and can thus be considered a competitor when considering XWiki as a platform for developing collaborative web applications. Thanks -Vincent Begin forwarded message: > From: Felix Meschberger <[email protected]> > Date: April 18, 2011 9:10:00 AM GMT+02:00 > To: Apache Announcements <[email protected]>, Sling Users > <[email protected]> > Subject: [ANN] New Release of Apache Sling 6 > > Bringing Back the Fun > > Apache Sling brings back the fun to Java developers and makes the life > of a web developer much easier. It combines current state of the art > technologies and methods like OSGi, REST, scripting, and JCR. > > The main focus of Sling deals with the important task of bringing your > content into the web and providing a platform to manage/update the > content in a REST style. > > Sling is built as OSGi bundles and therefore benefits from all > advantages of OSGi. On the development side a scripting layer > (leveraging the Java Scripting API) allows to use any scripting language > with Sling (of course you can use plain old Java, too). And on top of > this, Sling helps in developing an application in a RESTful way. > > As the first web framework dedicated to JSR-283 Java Content > Repositories, Sling makes it very simple to implement simple > applications, while providing an enterprise-level framework for more > complex applications. Underneath the covers Apache Jackrabbit is used > for the repository implementation. > > Download the new release, Apache Sling 6, today and give it a try! > > Apache Sling currently comes in four flavors: > - A standalone Java application (a jar containing everything to get > started with Sling) > - A web application (just drop this into your favorite web container) > - The full source package (interested in reading the source?) > - Maven Artifacts (available from the Central Maven Repository) > > For more information, please visit the Apache Sling web site at > http://sling.apache.org/. > > or go directly to the download site at > http://sling.apache.org/site/downloads.cgi > > For those interested in numbers: Since the Apache Sling 5 > announcement ... > > * 22 months have passed > * 7 committers have been added to Apache Sling > * 3 members have been added to the Apache Sling PMC > * 158 releases have been cut and voted on > * ~2800 commits have been sent to the SVN repository > > I would like to thank every user, contributor, committer and member of > the PMC for their hard work and sometimes patience for making Apache > Sling 6 a reality. > > On behalf of the the Apache Sling PMC > Felix Meschberger _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
