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create your sample application: create a folder "helloJquery" inside "apps"(e.g. with webDAV)
download jQuery and copy it in your "helloJquery" folder (e.g. with curl)
create a file helloJquery.html with the content below and copy it in your "helloJquery"
point your browser to http://localhost:8888/apps/helloJquery/helloJquery.html^{Image Removed}. the next steps are there...

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	html
title	helloJquery.html

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Driving Sling with jQuery</title>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.2.6.js"></script>
  </head>
<body>

<h3>Driving Sling with jQuery</h3>
<p>Start firebug, click on Console, then go multiline (click the little red arrow on the bottom bottom right)</p>
<p>enter the code below, click on 'run'</p>

<pre>
$.post(
  "/content/*",
  { ':nameHint': 'myNamemyNode', oneProperty: 'oneValue' }, 
  function(data){ alert(data); }
);
</pre>

<p>Then <a href="http://localhost:7402/content/mynamemyNode.html">view your new node</a></p>

</body>
<html>

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We used jQuery to create a node named "mynodemyNode" below "content", with a property "oneProperty" and value "oneValue".

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	JavaScript
	JavaScript

$.post(
  "/content/*",
  {
    ':nameHint': 'myNamemyNode',
    oneProperty: 'oneValue'
  },
  function(data){
    alert(data);
  }
);

If you are not familiar with jQuery, the code might look cryptic, but in 2 words: $.post creates the ajax post request, taking 3 parameters:

"/content/*" as url, using SlingPostServlet to create a new jcr node under the /content node
':nameHint': "mynodemyNode", oneProperty: 'oneValue' is a key:pair list of request parameters.
- ':nameHint' is a command (starts with ':') that tells Sling to use "mynodemyNode" for the node name.
- oneProperty: sets one property under mynode myNode
the third (optional) parameter is a callback

It's the ajax equivalent of using this html form:

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<form action="/content/*" method="POST">
  <input type="hidden" name=":nameHint"   value=""myNamemyNode">
  <input type="text"   name="oneProperty" value="oneValue">
</form>

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