On 9/15/05, Max Pfingsthorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Great that there is some traffic again, I was afraid slide might be dying. > ...
> Another nice thing would be to be able to use slide to "webdav-enable" your > own servlet application. This would be nice for people who are building a web > application and would like to publish some info (like calendaring information > via iCal) using webdav. This would mean a more flexible store implementation, > and an API to add a store or a whole namespace on the fly. > We've just used slide very successfully (well, mostly) in this way and plan to again soon, and I'd echo this. We used the "webdav construction kit" which worked but in a perfect world wouldn't have been necessary. > In general, I think slide needs a makeover. It seems very hard to maintain > and to use. How about a major refactoring of the authentication / storage / > locking / services components for version 3? I think they should be more > separated and transparent, so that some layers can be skipped for > applications that don't need them and so that programming in one layer > becomes easier (e.g. we don't have to worry about locking anymore in the > authentication layer). Right now, I see a lot of checkCredentials() and > checkLocks() all over the place, along with many instances where > SlideTokenWrappers are needed to either disable or enable locking or > transaction management in some cases for some obscure reason(s). Sounds great to me. Geoff --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
