Jeff, As a committer on Slide and a user of Slide on several of my own projects, I feel your pain.
JackRabbit has a different model and while I am sure you can duplicate the behavior, I would guess it is going to be easier to fix Slide than to re-write to the new model. Ollie On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Jeff Hillier <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All- > > I'm picking up an older project that was developed using slide 2.1. The > existing project is a "file management" application for our web servers. > Basically the Slide stores were configured so users could use webdav (via > Dreamweaver/Windows Explorer etc) to place there files onto the web server > in a development environment. Then through the application could push those > files through our work flow into our production environment. Under the > covers the files are pragmatically moved from the development environment to > the production environment using the slide API. So our existing system is > not a true content management system, but instead a file management system. > > We use a FileStore to store the files on the web server mounts and a > DBStore to store the metadata about the files, which also completes our > audit requirements (who did what, when, and who approved it) > > Moving to a real content management system is not an option at this time, > but we'd like to see if we can move to a more stable implementation for > webdav access, Jackrabbit seems like it may be a good fit. We don't have > many "content management" requirements, ie we don't need versioning, each > file needs to be stored un altered on the file system, and as far as the > application is concerned files have no relationship to each other. Basically > we just need to move files from the users desktop to the server via webdav. > > Can Jackrabbit be configured in more of a "file management" mode vs true > content management? Can it be configured the same way Slide could, with > metadata being stored in the DB (path, properties like create data, size, > type), and the actual files stored on the file system in their original > format? Am I better off trying to fix some of the issues we have in our > current Slide based application rather than moving to jackrabbit? > > Any advise/opinions would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks > > Jeff > -- Michael Oliver CTO, Corent Technology Inc. 3600 W Florida Ave, #481 Hemet, CA, 92545 ph:949-547-5700
