--- title: Apache Sling Reviews meta\_title: 'Apache Sling Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 25 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Apache Sling works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.3 review\_count: 25 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Web Frameworks url: https://www.g2.com/categories/web-frameworks --- # Apache Sling Reviews & Product Details Apache Sling is an innovative web framework that is intended to bring back the fun to web development. * * * Seller [The Apache Software Foundation](https://www.g2.com/sellers/the-apache-software-foundation) Discussions [Apache Sling Community](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-sling/discuss) Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![spring.io](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "spring.io") spring.io 4.5/5(320) ](https://www.g2.com/products/spring-io/reviews) [ ![JHipster](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "JHipster") JHipster 4.4/5(97) ](https://www.g2.com/products/jhipster/reviews) [ ![Vaadin](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Vaadin") Vaadin 4.1/5(36) ](https://www.g2.com/products/vaadin/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-sling/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 25 real user reviews. [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") CC Verified User in Computer Software Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/20/2020 "Amazing technology/Framework. Ease of usage and integration with different technologies is amazing." 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Sling? I worked with apache sling as part of adobe experience manager, it's REST features are amazing along with that it's ease of integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Sling? Nothing as such I came across. I didn't came across any issues or difficulties as part of our work Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Sling: It was amazing framework, it's ease of collaboration with other technologies is awesome Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Sling solving and how is that benefiting you? I work primarily on adobe experience manager as part of application design it was great API to handle technical design to achieve our business requirements Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Debal D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Debal D.") DD Debal D. Senior System Analyst Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/26/2020 "It's really awesome to use." 5/5 What do you like best about Apache Sling? Using Apache Sling I can easily perform CRUD operations and I can expose restful service as an API. These are really cool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Sling? Importance of performance. High level API usually means additional overhead. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Sling: Apache Sling can be used as a higher API and it has multiple advantages. We can use Apache Sling APIs with different use cases. I would suggest developer should define the technical implementation first then try to align different Sling APIs with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Sling solving and how is that benefiting you? 1. CRUD operations 2. Exposing restful service as an API 3. Exposing AEM (CMS) content as JSON 4. Sling filter Benefits - 1. Sling is useful as a higher API 2. Annotation driven , I can do less coding Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Bhargav G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Bhargav G.") BG Bhargav G. Consultant Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/25/2020 "I have been using Apache sling for more than 6 years to build java web applications for clients." 5/5 What do you like best about Apache Sling? The OSGI model in apache sling is very good, since it modularises the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Sling? Apache Sling quite vulnerable to security flaws when best practices are not followed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Sling solving and how is that benefiting you? It is a great web framework which has 1 to 1 mapping of the resources, building rest based websites is much faster with apache sling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") CC Verified User in Computer Software Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/26/2020 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Apache sling perfect API for Development" 5/5 What do you like best about Apache Sling? Apache sling API helps in our developement activities for content management systems..Its prefect api,simple to use,annotation driven and content centric and plays major role in almost all content based applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Sling? Need more simple examples,documentation for major updates Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Sling solving and how is that benefiting you? AEM based applications and we design almost all major problems,requirements using Sling .It helps us to inject resources,bind and restful way to get the content using resources and helps in almost all components,features development Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/24/2020 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Foundation of many CMSes" 5/5 What do you like best about Apache Sling? Ease of use, ample documentation and superior performance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Sling? Not much to dislike; have been working on Adobe AEM since many years which is a CMS based on Apache Sling Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Sling solving and how is that benefiting you? Benefits are many; the REST principles ensure content can be created/modified/deleted just by changing the request methods and need to write less code for different variations of content - suing selectors Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite MM Meena M. Associate Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/13/2020 "Amazing Restful nature" 5/5 What do you like best about Apache Sling? Restful development is the most I like in Apache sling and it helps me do other tasks instead of wasting time in setup and other stuff Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Sling? script resolution can be overlayed and it becomes more difficult to trace the script resolution. And also the support is very limited Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Sling solving and how is that benefiting you? Sling helps on lot on application development instead of concentrating on structure so that every developer is interested to use it. It helps me a lots in terms of writing custom scripts to resolve resouce Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 7/21/2020 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Bhargav K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Bhargav K.") BK Bhargav K. Senior Software Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/27/2020 "Apache Sling Review" 5/5 What do you like best about Apache Sling? I have used in AEM and I find it easier to make REST based calls to fetch Data saved as Nodes. Define sling mapping which hides the absolute URL to an end User Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Sling? We do not have a Write Operation using sling to update Data. Which should be an addition. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Sling solving and how is that benefiting you? Retrieve Data stored in Content repository and show it to end users. Easy, Robust, light weight. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") CI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/30/2020 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "I am working with apache sling API along with AEM from last three years." 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Sling? Storing and fetching unstructured data inside JCR by using ACL Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Sling? Not sure what to say here. Overall working exp is good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Sling solving and how is that benefiting you? While usong sling apis we are able to manage huge contents likes pages, assets and all other binary data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ![Vishal M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Vishal M.") VM Vishal M. Senior Software Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/23/2020 "Great web framework" 5/5 What do you like best about Apache Sling? I like sling resolution, the way it resolve the Http request to pick the appropriate content resource based on selectors and extension Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Sling? Never had bad experience. But the only thing is it's not widely used and popular much. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Sling: Great web framework. Easy to use and good support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Sling solving and how is that benefiting you? Used Apache Sling in AEM and very helpful web framework Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ![Pratiksha R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Pratiksha R.") PR Pratiksha R. Senior System Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/21/2020 "Robost framework implementation for JCR API" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Sling? It is effective with OSGi compatibility and user-friendly making it powerful framework all together. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Sling? Time consuming. Its subjective , we didn't find any. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Sling solving and how is that benefiting you? I am working with aem with Apache sling. And it's quite amazing the way it works. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Apache Sling? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about Apache Sling ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-sling/discussions/new) GU Guest User What is Apache Sling used for? 0 Upvotes 0 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-apache-sling-used-for) [ View all Discussions ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-sling/discuss) ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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