On Thursday 24 October 2002 11:39 pm, Gerard van de Looi wrote: > Hi all, > > Has anyone looked at WebDAV in combination with MMbase? > A lot of large content management systems seem to support this standard. > Is this something we need in MMbase and why or why not?
I think it can be very usefull if you want mmbase to act more like a document management system(categories/documents/versions). But overall I think the power of MMBase is the reusability of the content, using images multiple times, making refs to other document etc webdav doest not provide explicit support for this so there is not much to win and lots to loose. But it can be a powerfull combo with the richtext project where we store xml in the database. For the user to interact with the cms he/she could for example store openoffice document in a "virtual" WebDav directory structure. MMBase could then transform the document to richtext (keeping the original) and publish the content. So after all. Why not setup a subversion system (that uses webdav /apache runtime as standard protocol) http://subversion.tigris.org/ ,let "content providers/managers" store documents in the subversion system. and let "mmbase folk" publish / create relations between documents and other stuff. Not to much integration so not to much problems :) or in less words ... http://carlit.mine.nu/pappers/JavaXMLCms/img5.png and substitute "Java Internet CMS" for MMBase ... -- Kees "freedom" Jongenburger , alias keesj
