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In the last posting I showed the benefits of Sling regarding resource access over plain JCR. But not only in resource access both frameworks offer similar functionality, but also in the important area of listening to changes in the repository. So today I want to compare JCR observation to Sling eventing. JCR observation is a [...]

CQ5 as a complex framework is built on top of various other frameworks, on the server-side the most notably ones are JCR (with its implementation Apache Jackrabbit) and Apache Sling. Both are very powerful frameworks, but both of them have some overlap in functionality: reading data from the repository (Sling Resources vs JCR nodes/properties) notification [...]