jackrabbit compatibility

[Will Glass-Husain <wg...@gmail.com>]

Hi--

We're in the early stage of spec'ing out a CMS-like capability for an app
and are looking at using Jackrabbit as a file repository serving files that
are then parsed by Velocity.  Among other benefits, this would let our users
upload files via WebDAV and do version tracking.

Does anyone in the Velocity community use Jackrabbit to serve Velocity
templates?  At the moment, I'm thinking we'll probably  implement a custom
resource loader that retrieves the template source.  Would love to hear any
tips from people who have been down this route.

Best, WILL


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Will Glass-Husain
wglass@forio.com
www.forio.com

Re: jackrabbit compatibility

[Will Glass-Husain <wg...@gmail.com>]

Hi Robert,

Thanks for the comments.

This is part of a larger system that currently has a basic file upload/web
file manager.  We plan on adding some CMS-like features to improve usability
of that part of the system.  We're mostly interested in wiki-style
versioning; e.g. the ability to roll back to a previous version (as opposed
to doing patch or merge features).  For simplicity, we're working on a file
by file basis (you can do #include's, but we leave that to the user).   And
yes, definitely, users are editing HTML (and other text files) that include
VTL.

Currently we have a web interface and an FTP interface for managing files.
We'd like to put the version features in the web interface and basically use
Webdav as a substitute for FTP.

WILL

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 4:56 AM, Robert Koberg <ro...@koberg.com> wrote:

>
> On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 18:47 -0800, Will Glass-Husain wrote:
> > Hi--
> >
> > We're in the early stage of spec'ing out a CMS-like capability for an
> app
> > and are looking at using Jackrabbit as a file repository serving files
> that
> > are then parsed by Velocity.  Among other benefits, this would let our
> users
> > upload files via WebDAV and do version tracking.
>
> Has the state of webdav versioning (deltav) improved a great deal
> recently? From what i remember it leaves a lot to be desired.
>
> (Alessandro, are you still around?)
>
> Are people editing locally and then committing/uploading when complete?
> Or are they editing on a shared server? If on the same server, does each
> editing 'save' get versioned (and indexed for search)?
>
> Are people just editing static XHTML/XML or are they able to add
> velocity code to the content pieces? Do you allow more than one content
> piece per page and reuse the content pieces?
>
> Do you render the (velocity) content pieces/templates on the way into or
> out of the repository or do you assemble them into a page that is then
> rendered?
>
> best,
> -Rob
>
>
> >
> > Does anyone in the Velocity community use Jackrabbit to serve Velocity
> > templates?  At the moment, I'm thinking we'll probably  implement a
> custom
> > resource loader that retrieves the template source.  Would love to hear
> any
> > tips from people who have been down this route.
> >
> > Best, WILL
> >
> >
>
>
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wglass@forio.com
www.forio.com

Re: jackrabbit compatibility

[Robert Koberg <ro...@koberg.com>]

On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 18:47 -0800, Will Glass-Husain wrote:
> Hi--
> 
> We're in the early stage of spec'ing out a CMS-like capability for an app
> and are looking at using Jackrabbit as a file repository serving files that
> are then parsed by Velocity.  Among other benefits, this would let our users
> upload files via WebDAV and do version tracking.

Has the state of webdav versioning (deltav) improved a great deal
recently? From what i remember it leaves a lot to be desired.

(Alessandro, are you still around?)

Are people editing locally and then committing/uploading when complete?
Or are they editing on a shared server? If on the same server, does each
editing 'save' get versioned (and indexed for search)?

Are people just editing static XHTML/XML or are they able to add
velocity code to the content pieces? Do you allow more than one content
piece per page and reuse the content pieces?

Do you render the (velocity) content pieces/templates on the way into or
out of the repository or do you assemble them into a page that is then
rendered?

best,
-Rob


> 
> Does anyone in the Velocity community use Jackrabbit to serve Velocity
> templates?  At the moment, I'm thinking we'll probably  implement a custom
> resource loader that retrieves the template source.  Would love to hear any
> tips from people who have been down this route.
> 
> Best, WILL
> 
> 


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Re: jackrabbit compatibility

[Robert Koberg <ro...@koberg.com>]

Another thing to keep an eye on is Atom Publishing Protocol and PATCH.
It is an attempt at a RESTful way to update documents adding a PATCH
verb (like PUT, DELETE, etc). 

best,
-Rob


On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 18:47 -0800, Will Glass-Husain wrote:
> Hi--
> 
> We're in the early stage of spec'ing out a CMS-like capability for an app
> and are looking at using Jackrabbit as a file repository serving files that
> are then parsed by Velocity.  Among other benefits, this would let our users
> upload files via WebDAV and do version tracking.
> 
> Does anyone in the Velocity community use Jackrabbit to serve Velocity
> templates?  At the moment, I'm thinking we'll probably  implement a custom
> resource loader that retrieves the template source.  Would love to hear any
> tips from people who have been down this route.
> 
> Best, WILL
> 
> 


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