Event listeners

Question

What is the difference between ResourceChangeListener and EventListener in AEM ?

arunpatidar · Accepted Answer

There are three type of Listener is in AEM

1. JCR Event Listeners

2. Sling Event Listener

3. Osgi Event listener

It is encouraging to use Sling Resource Listener if you are listening just the resource changes.

Check for more about sling event listener https://cqdump.joerghoh.de/2022/02/03/the-deprecation-of-sling-resource-events/

Mayank_Gandhi · Answer

@prashanthal Former is called when a resource is added/deleted/modified in Target path. These resources are not changed through the installer but through any other means like a bundle being installed directly through the framework or a configuration directly changed through the configuration admin.

ex:

@Property( label = "Change Types", description = "[ Optional ] The change event types this listener will listener for. ", name = ResourceChangeListener.CHANGES, value = {"ADDED", "CHANGED", "REMOVED", "PROVIDER_ADDED", "PROVIDER_REMOVED"} )

https://sling.apache.org/apidocs/sling7/org/apache/sling/installer/api/ResourceChangeListener.html

while EventListener can be used for event handling at the JCR level by implementing the EventListener interface. Ex: you can create an event listener that listens to the event when a new node is added.

javax.jcr.observation.Event lists the following types:

Event.NODE_ADDED
Event.NODE_MOVED
Event.NODE_REMOVED
Event.PERSIST
Event.PROPERTY_ADDED
Event.PROPERTY_CHANGED
Event.PROPERTY_REMOVED

https://aemhints.com/2020/11/08/event-listener-in-aem-6-5/

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