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
> >>>
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