Page Comparison

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Application Helper Features

• Status
  colour Yellow title Prio 2

  Page object cache infrastructure extensible by page object readers
  • Perhaps no longer relevant for configuration infrastructure (see Multi Tenancy and Configuration), but it may be still required for other usecases

• Status
  title Later

  DOM HTML API and Java-based Component Model
  • If we still require this type of components

• Status
  colour Yellow title Prio 2

  Content types/Mime types, File extension

• Status
  colour Yellow title Prio 2

  Escape helper methods

• Status
  colour Yellow title Prio 2

  URL Parameter parsing methods

• Status
  colour Yellow title Prio 2

  Version information: Make the version(s) of the deployed application accessible from the outside via (hidden) URL

WCM Helper Features

• Status
  colour Yellow title Prio 2

  Common page and resource filter implementations

• Status
  colour Yellow title Prio 2

  Helper for ignoring well-known AEM properties with special meanings, or resources with it (e.g. from MSM that hides components that are deleted with an MSM inheritance, but still present in the repository)

• Status
  colour Yellow title Prio 2

  htx -> html redirection

WCM Helper Templates

• Status
  colour Green title Prio 1

  Text Resource Template

• Status
  title Later

  "Directory Upload" Template - Supports uploading a ZIP that is extracted into a folder structure - supports uploading of whole microsites with static HTML and resources or other mini frontend-only applications that can be references via their URL

• Status
  colour Green title Prio 1

  "Structure Element" Template

• Status
  title Later

  "Smart Activate Tree" Template - Does not single page activation, but packages a content package with all relevant packages, activates the whole content package to the publish instances, and marks the relevant pages as activated

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• Status
  colour Yellow title Prio 2

  Helpers for detection resource modifications and set not-modified-since headers

• Status
  colour Green title Prio 1

  Abstract default implementation of background service with best practices
  • Avoid long-running JCR sessions
  • Do not use administrative session
  • Cluster/topology-aware
  • Provide dependency injection

• Status
  colour Yellow title Prio 2

  Helper classes for resource types, run modes, Sling URLs
  • Check which of these features are available in Sling API as well, or where Sling API may be fixed or extended
  • Proper support of run modes, remove old-style runmode support already deprecated in Sling/CQ

• Status
  colour Green title Prio 1

  adaptTo extension for "adaptNotNull"

• Status
  colour Yellow title Prio 2

  Sling Suffix handler infrastructure (maybe with an API that is easier to understand)

JCR Helper Features

• Status
  title Later

  Helper methods for handling binary nodes and mime types inside JCR