Apache Sling 5 Released

Bringing Back the Fun - Reloaded


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 plattform to manage/update the content in a REST style.


Sling is built into OSGi bundles and therefore benefits from all advantages of OSGi. On the development side a scripting layer (using Apache BSF) 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-170 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 5, today and give it a try!

Apache Sling currently comes in four flavors:
- A standalone 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 through the Apache Incubator Repository)

For more information, please visit the Apache Sling web site at
http://incubator.apache.org/sling.

or go directly to the download site at
http://incubator.apache.org/sling/site/downloads.cgi

The Apache Sling Community

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Carsten Ziegeler
cziegeler@apache.org