hi brian congratulations to you first commit(s) :)
as you may have noticed i opened a jira issue some time ago about the jdom, which is heavily used in the jcr-server but got removed from the jackrabbit core, due to backwards incompatibility issues within jdom causing problems. i opened an jira bug that should address this within the jcr-server contrib: JCR-258 Jcr-Server Contrib: Remove JDOM dependencies i'm currently working on this and you may figure out that i will cause major changes to the jcr-server. thus, i'd like to ask you be very conservative in changing the jcr-server in order to avoid me struggling with conflicts. thanks for your comprehension. angela btw: i don't think its ok to make just private methods protected in the DavResource. there was a reason making them private. i would like to know, why you need them to be protected. thanks.