I don't know much about the slide API, but would it be fair to say that the WebDAV client is a distributed HTTP client/server design that can be made to scale more easily and be more fault tolerant for large scale deployments? Since the slide DAV servers can be HTTP load-balanced and configured in a clustered configuration and the WebDAV client can make requests transparently to any slide server?
Or is the slide API also a remote API to the slide server too? Warwick -----Original Message----- From: Andrey Shulinsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 2:48 PM To: 'Slide Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: Using the slide api directly vs. using the webdav client Nick, first of all, as Kiran has already said, performance should be better. Then, getting rid of one extra layer that you might not need should make your app more robust. Webdav client has its fair share of bugs, afaik. Finally, slide core api is more handy. It's just my opinion, of course, and I'm not well familiar with the client. Yours sincerely, Andrey. > -----Original Message----- > From: Slide Users Mailing List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 3:13 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Using the slide api directly vs. using the webdav client > Importance: Low > > Andrey > > That's very interesting to hear. I had been intending to do > all my work with the slide api, as opposed to the webdav api. > So, for creating structure ("folders", users, adding > documents) I can use the server api, but for checking out and > versioning documents, I will have to use the webdav api. > > Do you see any inherent advantage beyond this to using one > api over the other ? (ie, webdav vs. server api) > > Nick > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrey Shulinsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 2:08 PM > To: 'Slide Users Mailing List' > Subject: RE: Using the slide api directly vs. using the webdav client > > You are welcome. If you have more specific questions about > slide "core" > api, > don't hesitate to ask. Just keep in mind that currently it is > somewhat flawed - for instance, some important parts of > versioning and binding mechanism are implemented in slide's > "webdav" layer only. > > Yours sincerely, > Andrey. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
