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RE: [stellation-res] WVCM - I love apache :-)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: stellation-res-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:stellation-res-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Mark C.
> Chu-Carroll
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 10:24 PM
> To: stellation-res@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [stellation-res] WVCM - I love apache :-)
>
>
> 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.)
>
Have you looked at the Eclipse implementation of WebDAV? Although it is
documented as being an interim api/implementation and subject to change, but
it looks reasonably complete.
Regards
Jonathan Gossage
