Hi Vincent, On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Vincent Massol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This should interest Asiri: > http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50906 > I will definitely look into this as soon as I get some time. It looks really interesting. > > " > Milton is an open source java library for implementing desktop > integration in your web apps with WEBDAV. > > For those not familiar with WEBDAV, its like FTP but implemented in > HTTP. Its a mature standard and supported natively in all operating > systems. > > Once integrated, your users can view and/or manipulate remote data in > your application using drag and drop of files and folders in their > native OS file browser - eg Windows Explorer, Nautilus, etc, over HTTP. > > Milton is agnostic of the nature of your data and can be used with any > type of persistence mechanism, including hibernate, JPA, etc. > > Milton can be integrated easily into most web apps by implementing a > Resource interface and a ResourceFactory, and adding the Milton > servlet to web.xml. > > Milton allows you to specify which http methods to support (eg DELETE, > PUT, MKCOL, etc). HTTP authentication and authorisation are delegated > to your application logic. > > Milton is not bound to the Servlet API, so it can easily be integrated > into alternative web servers. > " Except for the last point, jackrabbit provides a similar interface to developers / users. But I believe there is more to this, I will investigate into this further and let all of you know if we can / should move into Milton. > > > Note: I'm not saying we should move to that. Just that we need to keep > it in our radar and decide at some point if it's better or not better > than the jackrabbit api we're using. Agreed. Thanks. - Asiri > > > Thanks > -Vincent > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
