WCM, Sling and JCR Helpers

Application Helper Features

• 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

• Later DOM HTML API and Java-based Component Model

  • If we still require this type of components

• Prio 2 Content types/Mime types, File extension

• Prio 2 Escape helper methods

• Prio 2 URL Parameter parsing methods

• Prio 2 Version information: Make the version(s) of the deployed application accessible from the outside via (hidden) URL

WCM Helper Features

• Prio 2 Common page and resource filter implementations

• 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)

• Prio 2 htx -> html redirection

WCM Helper Templates

• Prio 1 Text Resource Template

• 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

• Prio 1 "Structure Element" Template

• 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

Sling Helper Features

• Prio 2 Helpers for detection resource modifications and set not-modified-since headers

• 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

• 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

• Prio 1 adaptTo extension for "adaptNotNull"

• Prio 2 Sling Suffix handler infrastructure (maybe with an API that is easier to understand)

JCR Helper Features

• Later Helper methods for handling binary nodes and mime types inside JCR