Sling Content Distribution in AEM (Part 1) — Forward Distribution

The Sling Content Distribution (SCD) module allows one to distribute Sling resources between different Sling instances. This can be used to distribute/sync content between AEM Author and Publishers for different scenarios.

In this tutorial let us see how to enable sling content distribution to distribute/sync content between AEM author and publishers.

Sling Content Distribution:

• allowing distribution of content among different Sling instances.
• “distribution” — the ability to pick one or more resources on a certain Sling instance in order to copy and persist them onto another Sling instance.
• The Sling Content Distribution module is able to distribute content by:

“pushing” from Sling instance A to Sling instance B — Forward distribution

“pulling” from Sling instance B to Sling instance A — Reverse distribution

“synchronizing” Sling instances A and B via a (third) coordinating instance — Sync distribution

• Agent — creating one or more packages of resources from the source(s), dispatching such packages to one or more queues and of processing such queued packages by persisting them into the target instance(s)