Sling Models in CQ 5.5 ?

[sneakybeaky]

Hi,

We're using Sling Models successfully in our AEM 6.0 projects. We also have some projects using CQ 5.5. Right now the Sling Models 1.0.6 implementation doesn't work in a 5.5 instance as the dependency is thas on org.apache.sling.commons.osgi isn't satisfied -  5.5 supplies 2.1.0 and Models needs 2.2 or later.

Is there any way to get Models working on a 5.5 instance ?

Thanks. 

[justin_at_adobe · Accepted solution]

This should be fixed in the next release: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-3703

[sneakybeaky]

Many thanks - that was quick ! Do you know when that might happen ? And pending that I guess we can just patch locally, build & deploy sling models and then deploy the official release when available ?

[justin_at_adobe]

There's a handful of other things which I'd like to address in the next release, so you are probably best off using a source build for now. That would actually be helpful to confirm that it does now work on CQ 5.5.