Concepts and Ideas

These pages contain concepts and ideas under development for future inclusion in Sling.

Module Reorganization Proposal

IMPLEMENTED

Everything is a Resource

Taking the JCR Paradigm Everything is Content to Sling (IMPLEMENTED)

Effective Exceptions

We should define the SlingException as a RuntimeException and use it as the base class for all exceptions defined in the Sling API. (IMPLEMENTED)

Thoughts on Release Management

Version Number and Release Planning Concept (IMPLEMENTED)

Add ResourceResolverFactory Service Interface

Easier and more flexible access to ResourceResolver instances providing the ResourceResolverFactory interface in the Sling API and allow for the extensibility of the factory using new ResourceResolverProvider services. (IMPLEMENTED)

Flexible Resource Resolution

Extend resource resolution with an integrated and flexible mechanism (IMPLEMENTED)

Updating the Sling Launcher

How we could get the Sling Launcher to be updated through management interfaces such as the Felix Web Console or the Felix Shell. (IMPLEMENTED)

Multitenancy Support

With support for virtual host resolution we made a first step towards multitenancy support. I would like to propose a further step to provide a basis for further multitenancy support throughout Sling.

Authentication Initiation

How to generalize initiation of the authentication process. (IMPLEMENTED)

Resource Resolution Plugins

Further enhancements to the Flexible Resource Resolution (DRAFT)

Donating Jackrabbit Integration to Apache Jackrabbit

(NO FURTHER WORK DONE)

User Authentication

Separating authentication from ResourceResolver access (ammending Add ResourceResolverFactory Service Interface) (NOT IMPLEMENTED)

Multiple Workspace Support

Supporting CRUD

Service Authentication

Introduce new service level authentication to replace loginAdministrative (PROTOTYPE)

Observation usage patterns

Solving the Authentication Handler Credential Validation Problem

Define a mechanism to allow an Authentication Handler to validate the user's identity and signal that to the ResourceResolverFactory in the authentication information.(DRAFT)