sling.servlet.resourceTypes

[Venkatesha_Gamp]

Hello All,

Very Good Evening!!!

When to use sling.servlet.resourceTypes of servlet annotation?

Could you please share me if you have any application like ajax call with servlet(sling.servlet.resourceTypes)?

Thanks in advance.

Thanks,
Venkatesham G.

[smacdonald2008 · Accepted solution]

Under the Sling docs - both ways for registering a Sling Servlet are valid:

[img]SlingReg.png[/img]

https://sling.apache.org/documentation/the-sling-engine/servlets.html

Registering a servlet by path is a supported way and lets you invoke it using AJAX calls - even from outside of AEM. 

However - binding by resource type is valid too. 

We have a community article that shows how to bind by resource type: 

https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/resourcetypes.html

[Kunal_Gaba_]

It is always a good practice to use resourceType for invoking servlets rather than creating custom servlet URLs. Check out this article - https://cqdump.wordpress.com/2015/03/23/aem-coding-best-practice-servlets/