I'm definitely game to try. http://jakarta.apache.org/slide/javadoc/org/apache/slide/store/Store.html
Are we talking about implementing the Store interface with no-ops for many of the methods? Alon On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 23:43:39 -0700, James Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alon, > I know what you mean. You know if you're not needing anything fancy it > shouldn't be that hard to write a really simple filesystem Store for > Slide. You could probably ignore locking, metadata, security and > transactions, and since those are the complicated bits it should go > quite fast :). I can try to walk you through it if you're interested. > > -James > > > > alon salant wrote: > > Thanks for confirming my understanding. > > > > I'm hoping to have WebDAV running within my webapp because I already > > manage user authentication in Java and would like to apply the same > > container-managed security my WebDAV implementation. I'm actually > > surprised not to find a simple webdav servlet impementation > > independent of application server platform or framework (slide). > > > > Alon > > > > On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 22:46:05 -0700, James Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Alon, > >> > >>I can't think of any way to get Slide to do this (maybe someone else > >>can, though). The TxFile Store implementation uses xml files to store > >>the structure of the repository, so I don't see any way to get this to > >>use an existing structure in the filesystem. > >> > >>You could write a really Store implementation that either ignores > >>metadata or stores it in some sort of .meta file. > >> > >>You might also look into using Apache HTTP Server's mod_dav module. It > >>should do what you need and is very cross-platform. > >> > >>-James > >> > >> > >> > >>alon salant wrote: > >> > >>>I've been reading the slide docs, have set up the slide server and > >>>have WebDAV working for accessing files in slide. > >>> > >>>I have been unable to definitively answer the following question. > >>>Hopefully someone on this list can answer it. > >>> > >>>Can the slide WebDAV servlet be configured to serve an existing > >>>directory on the filesystem? > >>> > >>>What I have found is that you can set up a slide filestore and store > >>>files in it, but you cannot create a slide filestore from an existing > >>>filesystem directory. Slide needs to store all kinds of metadata to do > >>>its job and the webdav servlet can only serve a slide filestore. Is > >>>this right? > >>> > >>>If not, what would I need to do to get the slide webdav servlet > >>>serving say, /home/alon/public_html/, where I have a bunch of > >>>directories and files in that location already? I understand that a > >>>limited set of the WebDAV protocol will be supported. > >>> > >>>I've also looked at the tomcat webdav servlet but it has several > >>>issues. First, it can only serve the webapp root in which it is > >>>loaded. It is also dependent on many tomcat core classes. I would like > >>>to be able to deploy on a range of application servers. > >>> > >>>Thanks, > >>> > >>>Alon > >>> > >>>--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
