On May 3, 2010, at 23:06, Ruben Reusser wrote:
>>> well, out of the box windows integration without an additional tool is not 
>>> so great in magnolia when I tested the last time - is it better now? Can I 
>>> use a windows share?
>>>     
>>> 
>> Ha! THAT's what you meant. But as far as I recall, the issue there is that 
>> Windows does not respect the WebDAV protocol properly; does Milton work 
>> around that ? Do you have any pointer about this ?
>> As far as using WebDAV-without-additional-tool on Windows, I also seem to 
>> recall that this was highly dependent on which Windows version you're using; 
>> some of them being more WebDAV-friendly than others ...
>> 
>>   
>> 
> :-) from the mitlon website: 
> 
> What is it compatible with?
> 
> Its been tested and works well with Windows XP, Linux and MacOS. Note that 
> webdav support in Windows Vista has issues and users might need to download a 
> patch. The two main office applications, Open Office and MS Office, also have 
> build in webdav support and both have been tested and work well with Milton.
> 
> http://milton.ettrema.com/compat/index.html

Right. Well, this doesn't sound exactly super-promising either (i.e results are 
vague, and different for each and every version of windows, require various SPs 
and hotfixes, which is also what we saw), but worth a try. If MS Office 
installs its own patches or uses its own WebDAV support, well, why not, I have 
no idea. Since our first targets for the WebDAV module were templates and 
resources, using Office wasn't really in scope anyway ;) But it might be good 
for DMS, so that's indeed worth a try.

If you look at 
http://confluence.magnolia-cms.com/display/DEV/WebDAV+support+matrix, you'll 
probably see we have similar results than what they have. Using an extra app 
for having proper WebDAV support just made things simpler. And using "WebDrive" 
for instance, once the drive is mapped, it just "looks" like a normal share in 
the file explorer, as far as I remember.

Well in any case, feel free to experiment and report your findings here; but if 
you haven't tried our module in a while, I'd recommend you compare against 
1.0.1. - and in any case, that doesn't mean we're stubbornly attached to using 
the Jackrabbit WebDAV implementation. I can already sense that implementing DMS 
support with our current module will be more tricky, so that might be a good 
occasion to look into Milton. (although I'm not enthusiastic about digging 
again into those compatibility issues ;))

Cheers,

-g


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