Hi Hugo, Well the justification is whether the wider community also think its a good idea and would want the feature, as a creator of software I can independently commission work but the question was really could this belong in the engine ?
Agree its not trivial so there may be some sponsorship element to it which i will be looking at. I appreciate the effort is different but in my mind its very similar to CFSMTP, it isn't core but an example of CF doing what it does making something quite hard wrapped an easy. Guess at this stage was just chucking the idea in the mix. Thanks Alex On Mar 2, 1:19 pm, "Hugo Ahlenius" <[email protected]> wrote: > Alex - I think you need to justify why OpenBD should implement this, and not > use a specialized software/solution. Especially since it would be > non-trivial techincally! > > Regards, > Hugo > > AlexS wrote on 2011-03-02: > > > Hi All, > > > The idea of CFSMTP is very cool, which got me thinking where else > > could OpenBD lend a hand. > > > We produce a CF based CMS / Basic DMS and one of the most sought over > > feature request has been we'd love to interact with the application as > > if it was a file system. > > > Picture being able to connect to your app as if it was a share drive > > and drag and drop folders, now this could be achieved by a creating a > > CFWEBDAV tag after all much of that can be implemented in pure CF > > including the base authentication etc but with Windows 7 WEBDAV > > support has become a bit problematic, you can see this through > > projects like Alfresco which when i last used them were struggling > > with Windows 7 support. Others have got around the issue by using a > > desktop app e.g. Razuna. > > > So how cool would it be if something like this was tied in > > >http://freshmeat.net/projects/jlanserver/ > > > Make your app appear to be an CIFS Server or FTP as well :) > > > Hooks would need to be inplace so you could role your own > > authentication mechanism > > file system representation and permissioning > > > WebDAV is cool if that was an easy first pass and the Java guys may > > know a better library to plugin for the other stuff. > > > Cheers > > > Alex > > -- > Hugo Ahlenius > fraxinus (at-sign) oxel.nethttp://www.oxel.net -- official tag/function reference: http://openbd.org/manual/ mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
