As someone who has been monitoring both Jackrabbit and Slide lists this
idea struck me before. If the people still working on Slide could be
brought over to work with some of the Jackrabbit people it seems to me
that this would be in the best interests of both communities. I don't
know how this would be done, or wether a TLP or a subproject would be a
better alternative. While they aren't the same (and I am not an expert
on either) it seems obvious that there are some gains to be made by
having a full featured WebDAV server with a JCR backend.
Stéphane Croisier wrote:
There is a thread running on right now on the Slide Dev List about
moving Slide to a Top Level Apache Project (TLP). Currently we are
using Slide as a temporary solution to store some binary files for our
CMS and I agree quite a lot with the conclusions of Brian... The Slide
project is nearly dead and without nearly any activities from
beginning of this year.
So the best solution would certainly be to open a new "dav.apache.org"
top level project which would include a Slide 3.0 full refactoring
based on Jackrabbit (or whatever would be the new name of such a
project) and try to gather all the currently scarce DAV ressources and
expertises into one single project.... Then CalDAV or other DAV
extensions would then also easily fit in such a new TLP...
My 2 cts...
Stéphane
At 17:31 14.12.2005, Brian Moseley wrote:
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
personally, i have no interest in working on such a thing. i
wouldn't tell somebody not to do it, but i wouldn't help them either.
Can you tell us why?
i found the slide codebase to be extremely confusing, verging on
incomprehensible. i was unable to make heads or tails of the apis and
had only the vaguest inkling of how i might extend it for caldav.
by contrast, the jcr-server design is relatively simple and elegant,
and the extension points are natural and obvious.
also the slide community didn't seem to have much momentum back in
the spring of 2005. there was no defined release plan and extremely
little support on the mailing list. the documentation that existed
was sparse and often frustratingly unintelligible, so when you had
questions, you were basically screwed.
things might have changed for the better with slide, but i'm not
optimistic. i vastly prefer the jackrabbit code and community.
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