Development

Welcome to the wonderful world of extending Sling. Refer to these pages to find out how we envision the extension of Sling and how to do it.

See also Developing for Sling on the Sling Wiki, which has more information on specific topics.

Using Sling as your Development Framework

Look here for more information on developer support when your are using Sling to build your own applications.

• Getting and Building Sling
• Defining and Launching a Sling based Application
• Content-Package based development
• Embedding Sling
• Logging
• Client Request Logging
• Monitoring Requests
• Repository Based Development
• Sling IDE Tooling
• Leveraging @NotNull/@Nullable null annotations

Testing Sling-based Applications

• Testing Sling-based Applications
• Testing with Pax Exam
• Junit Server-Side Tests Support
• Resource Resolver Mock
• Sling Mocks
• OSGi Mocks
• JCR Mocks
• Hamcrest integration

Maven Stuff

Sling is using Apache Maven 3 as its build system. Over time we have created a number of Maven 3 plugins and gathered a whole range of knowledge about using Maven.

• Sling Maven Plugin
• HTL Maven Plugin
• SlingStart Maven Plugin
• Maven Launchpad Plugin
• JspC Maven Plugin
• Maven Archetypes
• Maven Tips & Tricks

Sling Development

Last but not least, here is some more information on how we ourselves are working on Sling

• Dependency Management
• Version Policy
• Issue Tracker
• Release Management
• Deprecating Sling Modules
• Maven Usage
• Build Setup
• To run our integration tests suite see the Sling Starter module README and the launchpad/integration-tests README for how to run individual integration tests. We use the sling-IT label in JIRA for known issues with our integration tests.