> 28.06.2001 22:09:38, Remy Maucherat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Quoting Christopher Lenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
>
> [snip]
>
> >> I am currently working on an alternative webdav-layer on top of the
> >> slide-api (for university), experimenting with different approaches
> in
> >> that area... in particular including an extra abstraction layer
> >> between the core webdav-functionalty and slide. would there any
> >> interest in this from your side ?
> >
> >Another DAV layer could be interesting if it's better than the
> current one, but
> >I'm not interested in adding a new abstraction layer.
> >The arcitecture diagram (http://jakarta.apache.org/slide/images/arch-
> int1.png)
> >shows there are already two abstraction layers for the data (and one
> object
> >model to represent the data) :
> >- the helpers, which are the Slide API
> >- the store API
> >Maybe I missed something, but adding a third abstraction layer (with
> another
> >intermediate object model) would be overkill IMO.
>
> okay, you're right.
>
> abstraction might have been the wrong term for what I meant, actually
> I'm just extending parts of the servlet-api to provide convenient
> access to standard WebDAV-features (like javax.servlet.http.* extends
> the generic servlet-api to provide convenient access to standard HTTP
> functionality).
Ok.
> anyway, I'll look if anything worthwhile comes out of this, and might
> send the best of it to this list for discussion if that's okay.
Sure, that's very interesting work. There has been some talk in the past
about making the servlet API more webdav aware, but nothing has happened so
far.
Remy
