Ok, i hope this will clarify some things:Yes, a publish instance is required for the users to be able to access the content of you site without having to log in and not use the author interface. See this link for setting up the environments(http://dev.day.com/docs/en/cq/current/deploying/installing_...

Hello there,I'm not quite sure what you mean but usually you can set it up like this:1) Author Instance (on e.g server1:4502)2) Publish Instance (on e.g. server2:4503)It's not a problem to have them on the same machine as well if you prefer that :)Then when you want to get the new content to the pub...

Justin is correct there, just thought I would add some info to the problem. Since you are embedding the JSP API outside the OSGi environment (a different API) you will get that specific class loading error message. This is due to that the classes, variables etc. loaded from the non OSGi environment ...

Ah ok, sorry.Looks like you have and inconstisting URI for the t.ld file and the .jsp file. Shouldn't they both be 1.9 ?

Didn't we solve this before ? http://help-forums.adobe.com/content/adobeforums/en/experience-manager-forum/adobe-experience-manager.topic.html/forum__dphb-i_am_tryingtocreat.html

Hi,have you looked at this example. It's about getting relational data but you could modify it to something else :)http://www.lucamasini.net/Home/sling-and-cq5/accessing-relational-data-as-sling-restful-urls/Johan