> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get Slide working with Dreamweaver 4 and I've come up with
> a couple of problems.
>
> (i) I can get Dreamweaver to connect through to TC 3.2 but if the
collection
> contains many entries, say 100, then performance is very poor - up to a
> minute to retrieve the directory. (I am using a JDBC descriptor and
content
> store
> interfaced to Oracle). I read somewhere on the list that this might be due
> to the amount of XML generated. I have had a look at the webdav servlet
code
> and it seems the depth to which a PROPFIND request is made can be
configured
> but this still won't help with a large collection. Any ideas as to how I
> could go about improving performance ?
First of all, as I said before, some of the WebDAV requests can get very
expensive.
Doing a PROPFIND/allprop with depth 1 is probably going to kill the server
(and / or the client) no matter what if there are too many resources being
enumerated. Since it can be used for DoS attacks, I think I'll add switches
in the configuration to ba able to disable some of these features which are
necessary for full compliance but don't work well in the real world.
The DB performance can probably be optimized a lot by creating indexes,
optimizing the queries, and probably a lot of other tricks. However, I'm not
a DB guru, and this may take some time (unless somebody steps up and helps
:)).
> (ii) I can't get Dreamweaver to check out/check in files correctly. It
> appears the lock works but then when I make changes I can't check them in
> again. It looks like Dreamweaver thinks my email address is the user who
has
> the lock, rather than something like /users/root. Therefore it doesn't
think
> I am the person who checked out the file so it won't let me check it in.
> This is my guess - anyone have any ideas ? I've tried the recent patch
> Macromedia has given out for webdav support (1.02) and it makes matters
> worse!!!
I tried with GoLive some time ago, and if I remember it had similar issues
with locking. So that particular problem will have to be addressed.
Generally, I didn't do a lot to maximize WebDAV compatibility yet, since
there was a lot of features that needed to be added (and which was bound to
introduce problems). Now that has been done, I'll start spending time to fix
those issues.
AFAIK, there are issues with :
- Golive and all other Adobe products (locking problems)
- DreamWeaver (locking)
- Cadaver (doesn't work at all)
> I am using one of the nightly slide builds - from Friday, 27th April.
Remy
