I'm in the process of researching the best way to build a WebDAV system for a large user base. Because the storage is still up in the air and file versioning is desired Slide seems like a natural fit. I know very little about Slide or WebDAV but I'm familiar with Tomcat and HTTP.
Because I am building a system for a large user base I would need several tomcat instances and it sounds like the 2.1 clustering support is what I need but from previous J2EE experience I know that clustering usually involves pinning a user to a specific instance of Tomcat. Is this required in Slide? In the ideal world users hitting my system would all come though a switch at my.domain.com <http://my.domain.com>. Incoming requests would then be routed randomly to the various tomcat servers in my system. 2 subsequent requests from the same user would likely hit different tomcat servers. Does Slide Clustering support this? Also. Can my locks and content be on different storage systems? I suspect for clustering to work well I would have user files on NFS (or similar) and the locks would be in a shared database. or maybe I'm just crazy. ;-) Thanks in advance for any information! Tony
