As a committer on the Slide project before its retirement, I have a number of applications built on top of it and some of those are better on JackRabbit due to the Node Types and other aspects not relevant to this post.
But WebDAV on JackRabbit sucks. The reason it sucks is that the WebDAV filesystem paradigm is what users, especially non computer scientist users expect and using WebDAV by going to My NetWork Places and adding a WebDAV folder needs to show Folders and Files. With Slide this works Out of the Box and you can still download and install the Slide Tomcat bundle and start using it with WebDAV in a few minutes and use Microsoft Word to save a document to a Web Folder, and as long as Word has the document open, it is locked in Slide for all to see, Save it after some changes and it stays locked but you get a new version. Close Word and the lock goes away. You can have folders within folders and documents within folders. Simple, even my wife can use it. I am tempted to take Slide, create a new set of Stores for Slide that implement JackRabbit as the repository and use the Slide WebDAV interface. As I said for some things JackRabbit is greatly superior to Slide, but for WebDAV and Web Folders...uh no. Ollie -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/WebDAV-Paradigm-Mismatch-tp20173656p20173656.html Sent from the Jackrabbit - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
