[stellation-res] WVCM - I love apache :-)

["Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In the course of poking around get a more accurate idea of how much 
work would
be involved in WVCM-ifying Stellation, I popped on over to Apache, to 
see what they
had.

In the jakarta project, Apache has implemented Tomcat, which is a 
complete
servlet container implementation. As it turns out, it also includes a 
complete
HTTP server implementation for use outside of Apache; further, the 
servlet
container there actually has an implementation of a WebDAV servlet that
implements all of basic WebDAV. To extend that to provide complete 
protocol
support for WebDAV in the servlet engine will be *very* easy - it's an 
excellent,
clear implementation, which is deliberately designed to make it easy to 
extend
for things like DeltaV.

(Note that what I'm saying is easy is just the simple protocol support: 
receiving
and parsing requests, and generating correctly formatted responses. 
This is
completely independent of how much work it is to implement the 
underlying protocol
semantics, which will definitely *not* be very easy. But the heavy 
grungework of
writing tons of code for parsing and generating correct HTTP is already 
done
for us.)

	-Mark


Mark Craig Chu-Carroll,  IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
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