Comments on: First Official Release of Sling

By: Seth

Seth — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:08:00 +0000

Thanks Bertrand!

By: Bertrand Delacretaz

Bertrand Delacretaz — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:11:00 +0000

I just added information about how to create new script engines to the Sling FAQ.

By: Bertrand Delacretaz

Bertrand Delacretaz — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:53:00 +0000

Seth: there’s no documentation yet on how to create more scripting engines, but that shouldn’t be hard if you take one of the simple existing ones as an example.

The JRuby engine [1] for example, is built out of two simple classes, one that inherits from AbstractSlingScriptEngine, and one that inherits from AbstractScriptEngineFactory. And one META-INF/services/javax.script.ScriptEngineFactory file to let the scripting system know about the factory class.

[1] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/sling/trunk/scripting/ruby/

By: Seth

Seth — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:15:00 +0000

Thanks for the clarifications! TheLigntning: Is there any documentation on how to hook up other rendering engines?

John: I am looking forward to seeing Slingshot. When will Slingshot be rolled into EE?

By: John

John — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:05:00 +0000

Alfresco’s Project Slingshot is coming out very soon. First release is due within a month. This is no shot at Sling, which is designed for JCR. Slingshot is a reference to David and Goliath. It will also include an open Atom Publishing Protocol based API for interoperability with other languages and platforms. The APP API will come out about a month after the initial release.

By: TheLightning

TheLightning — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:58:00 +0000

Just to add a missing point. Sling is not limited to esp(serverside js) or jst(clientside js) but has a wide support of rendering technologies. Not every renderer may be as mature and stable as the mentioned, but as everything in the sling context they are in constant ‘evolution’ and may fit your needs more then any JS technology.