slide repository API

["Pill, Juergen" <Ju...@softwareag.com>]

To whom it may concern

I just have downloaded the newest slide version, including the sources.

We want to have a look, if we can enable our repository technology with
slide, to get the WebDav protocol. 

Did I understand the concept of slide right, if I would say, that slide
implements the WebDav protocol and enables a plugable interface to connect
to different repository systems, and currently (per default) a file system
driver is implemented.

Do you have information about this interface, is it located in a certain
package?

Best regards

Juergen Pill

Re: slide repository API

[Remy Maucherat <re...@apache.org>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pill, Juergen" <Ju...@softwareag.com>
To: <sl...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 1:39 AM
Subject: slide repository API


> To whom it may concern
>
> I just have downloaded the newest slide version, including the sources.
>
> We want to have a look, if we can enable our repository technology with
> slide, to get the WebDav protocol.
>
> Did I understand the concept of slide right, if I would say, that slide
> implements the WebDav protocol and enables a plugable interface to connect
> to different repository systems, and currently (per default) a file system
> driver is implemented.

That's a little bit more complex.

A file system driver is included for the content of the files.
A memory and a JDBC driver is included for the metadata storage.

There is a similar but more limited functionality built in Catalina (Tomcat
4), where you can implement the Resources interface to get very basic WebDAV
access to your repository. Slide will do about the same, but will provide
more DAV functionality, and lots of additional services.
In the future, Slide will provide even more services, while the Catalina
WebDAV support won't be extended, to keep it the simplest possible.

> Do you have information about this interface, is it located in a certain
> package?

Sorry, the documentation about the object model has yet to be written. The
various Stores interfaces and implementation can be found in the stores
package in the Slide repository.

Remy