Hey Lance, Seeing as you are going to use Sling, have you looked at Composum[1]? It has all the features you need from CRX, it makes packages, it has a repository browser,... It has MIT License and will even be included from the upcoming release of Sling, version 9, on.
Greets, Roy [1] https://github.com/ist-dresden/composum <https://github.com/ist-dresden/composum> > On 6 Jan 2017, at 00:30, Lance Dolan <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
