Options:

Use JCR Directly

Client code example:

Node node = (Node) session.getItem("/foo/bar");
Node content = node.getNode("jcr:content");
long lastModified = content.getProperty("jcr:lastModified").getLong()

• Advantages
  • No Java API definition necessary (content model is API)
  • All JCR features can be used
• Disadvantages
  • Verbose
  • No Lenya-specific code completion
    

Lenya Publication API

Client code example:

Document doc = session.getDocument("/foo/bar");
long lastModified = doc.getLastModified();

• Open issues
  • Object-JCR mapping?
• Advantages
  • Minimal amount of client code (not verbose)
• Disadvantages
  • With a layered approach (hiding all layers below the publication API), only the repository features exposed by the API can be used
    

Via Sling

• Open issues
  • Status of OSGi-fication of Cocoon
• Advantages
  • Out-of-the-box features
    • REST access for CRUD
    • DOJO store from repository content
  • Community
  • Tools