You can write sling servlets or jsps that return data in whatever format is configurable for you. Are you planning on adding any bundles to sling or doing the entire thing in the client?
Sarwar On 13 May 2012 05:29, "Günther Schmidt" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm planning quite an ambitious project, a swing desktop app (based on > Netbeans Platform) which is supposed to offer Groupware functionality & DMS. > In particular the app will eventually include > > * an email client > * a task module > * a calendar module > * manage binary files > * and whatever else I can think of and add it later > > I have chosen Apache Sling as the backend because of its REST API, I just > didn't care for RMI access as I might need WAN access to the backend so > HTTP / REST should make this easier. Another thing why I chose Sling is > because of the OSGi based architecture, one of its tasks will be to > periodically pull in new email from IMAP / POP3 servers. > > Now, to get started, with the client, I'll try to implement a JCR browser. > > I know that I can query the Sling repository and get JSON back, is this > the most feasible format or should I rather try to get XML results? > > Günther > >
