RE: Newbie: Is 1.0.16 the right current released version?

2003-11-06 Thread James Higginbotham
James Higginbotham wrote: CVS, using instructions available on the web site. James True, however CVS seems to be more supported as it has more bug fixes and is often the suggested upgrade path for those with problems on the 1.0.16 release. YMMV James

RE: Newbie: Is 1.0.16 the right current released version?

2003-11-06 Thread James Higginbotham
Ooch, if so the current release was released in November 2001, 2 years ago! So no Delta V support was implemented in that build. Thank you for help, De Correct. The CVS tree has the most current Delta V support. AFAICT, the CVS tree is fairly stable and the original author of the Delta

RE: using images in slide JSPs

2003-08-29 Thread James Higginbotham
IIRC, when you set the slide servlet to the default servlet for your web app, it will try to intercept every call. You will need to move it outside the web app. Most often, people use apache to serve images anyway, so if you setup your dev env to do The Right Thing (TM) you should be ok. HTH,

RE: Virtual File Put???

2003-08-14 Thread James Higginbotham
I haven't looked at the code, but seems the right thing to do is refactor it to allow for an InputStream, for which the File version can call into with a new FileInputStream. You can then create a ByteArrayInputStream with your byte[] and pass it in. May take a little code to support this need

RE: unlock method

2003-07-30 Thread James Higginbotham
Take a look at the example command line client that comes with Slide if you are doing HTTP/DAV, or the Struts admin example for the low-level API. James -Original Message- From: Henry Lu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 6:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: JXTA for Applicaiton Service Providers

2003-07-15 Thread James Higginbotham
Ok so now the question. We have almost all of our customers and customer applications delivered via a Web Browser. We want to add IM/Chat, Presence and File Sharing to our delivered Applications. We have looked at Jabber and even deployed it successfully for one of our customersbut

RE: Change notification

2003-07-09 Thread James Higginbotham
My current particular need is to be able to notify zero or more applications when a new baseline is created. Running applications would receive the notification and request the updated files. When an application starts, it simply reads the 'head' configuration. I am thinking of using

RE: Ms Office

2003-07-02 Thread James Higginbotham
Just a hunch here, but an older email from Dr. Nevermann (who implemented DeltaV for Slide) talks about locking wrt Office.. This may be why it is read-only, or it could be just simple permissions that Office sets up on the doc so others can't write except the author.. Anyway, here is the snippet:

RE: Ms Office

2003-07-02 Thread James Higginbotham
Following the webdav site, ie 5+ should support webdav but how ? The only way I know how to do it is to select File-Open, enter the URL, check the box that says 'open as web folder' or simliar, and it will open the DAV folder and do read and writing given the right server-side permissions.. I

RE: Who is using slide in production environment?

2003-06-30 Thread James Higginbotham
Hi, Disclaimer: I'm not a commiter nor do I represent the Slide team, but here are my findings as a user of the framework. There are mailing list archives that discuss the status, but basically all of the team members are busy with other projects. The project needs a dedicated lead with commit

RE: Slide-Admin

2003-06-27 Thread James Higginbotham
Check the mailing list archives at MARC (www.mail-archive.com). You have to put the slide jars under a shared classloader, as Slide has not communication medium to make the low-level API work across classloaders/VMs. James -Original Message- From: Michael Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Slide-Admin

2003-06-27 Thread James Higginbotham
/lib. How about the Domain.xml Michael Oliver CTO/Matrix Intermedia 7391 S. Bullrider Ave. Tucson, AZ 85747 Office (520)574-1150 Cell (518)378-6154 James Higginbotham said: Check the mailing list archives at MARC (www.mail-archive.com). You have to put the slide jars under

RE: Slide-Admin

2003-06-27 Thread James Higginbotham
) Michael Oliver CTO/Matrix Intermedia 7391 S. Bullrider Ave. Tucson, AZ 85747 Office (520)574-1150 Cell (518)378-6154 James Higginbotham said: Ah, Google.. http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:476gKAIdva4J:www.mail-archive.com /s lide-user%40jakarta.apache.org/msg02696.html

RE: Slide-Admin

2003-06-27 Thread James Higginbotham
7391 S. Bullrider Ave. Tucson, AZ 85747 Office (520)574-1150 Cell (518)378-6154 James Higginbotham said: Ah, Google.. http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:476gKAIdva4J:www.mail-archive.c om/s lide-user%40jakarta.apache.org/msg02696.html+%22slide-user%22+ tomcat+lib hl=enie

RE: Simple question

2003-06-20 Thread James Higginbotham
Exactly where I am at as well.. It started building on top of Slide and found that Slide is great for a precanned WebDAV solution, but is not architected properly to yield a high return for custom CMS development. I've emailed a suggested architecture if Slide wanted to solve this problem and

RE: Simple question

2003-06-20 Thread James Higginbotham
or jetspeed. I know that on jetspeed there's and implementation based on slide, but it's too instable and under construction for my needs. Regards, Dariush. - Original Message - From: James Higginbotham [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Slide Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday

RE: Problems understanding to use slide (next newbie)

2003-06-06 Thread James Higginbotham
You are correct.. In fact, if you want to talk WebDAV only, Slide is great and you can use the very simple Struts admin interface to manage users in the most simple of fashion. But no, Slide is a framework not a product much to my dismay as well. Based on my previous informal survey I sent and the

RE: Slide File Download Problem

2003-06-06 Thread James Higginbotham
Check your database to see if there is a cap for retrieving blobs - often, they will max it out to 64k unless configured otherwise. HTH, James -Original Message- From: xiaohu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 5:45 PM To: slide-user Subject: Slide File

RE: Slide File Download Problem

2003-06-06 Thread James Higginbotham
You might also try checking the max size of the database column storing the data in your situation if you don't want to use the hard disk directly to store file contents. Ah, yes... In fact, BLOB in MySQL maxes at 64k.. You will need to use the LONGBLOB type for the column as well.

RE: Problems understanding to use slide (next newbie)

2003-06-05 Thread James Higginbotham
You'll find that Slide is a framework, not a complete solution. The Struts admin tool is a small start, but isn't threadsafe, nor does it do any writing to the system. ACS, Tamino, and OpenCMS are a more complete solutions as are others that are build on Slide, Zope, etc. HTH, James

RE: Problem with versioning (newbie)

2003-06-04 Thread James Higginbotham
Here is what I found, for what it's worth: 1. The versioning extensions take on 2 forms: the low-level Slide API and the high-level DAV API over HTTP to match the DeltaV spec 2. If you don't plan to use the DAV over HTTP, then you can do your own calls to the versioning via the low-level API to

RE: Authentication and JBoss

2003-04-05 Thread James Higginbotham
East Florida, Suite 400 Denver, CO 80237 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: James Higginbotham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 9:08 AM To: Slide Users Mailing List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Authentication and JBoss Sorry.. Guess I didn't answer

RE: Authentication and JBoss

2003-04-05 Thread James Higginbotham
Drinks Sr. Reality Technology, Inc. 3801 East Florida, Suite 400 Denver, CO 80237 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: James Higginbotham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 8:54 AM To: Slide Users Mailing List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Authentication

RE: Authentication and JBoss

2003-04-04 Thread James Higginbotham
Search the archives at www.mail-archive.com - I've posted a jboss login module for slide. James -Original Message- From: Ivan Drinks Sr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 9:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Authentication and JBoss I have gotten Slide to

RE: Authentication and JBoss

2003-04-04 Thread James Higginbotham
My guess is that there isn't any docs for that.. I just dug into the source for SlideRealm and ported it from Tomcat to Jboss. You'll need to write the custom impl for the other containers you want to use it in. Unfortunately, j2ee doesn't cover this sort of thing in its spec yet. James

RE: Authentication and JBoss

2003-04-04 Thread James Higginbotham
Sorry.. Guess I didn't answer the question fully here. Basically, the system comes with a root/root user by default. Try using that.. I set the security in the web tier to use BASIC, then assigned the jboss realm to my webapp. That prompts me, and uses my login module to authenticate against the

RE: Why is Slide so dependant on Tomcat? (was Re: Authentication andJBoss)

2003-04-04 Thread James Higginbotham
help make slide any easier to integrate in other containers. Jetty, to my knowledge, doesn't use wrappers so integrating Slide into Jetty isn't going to be as smooth. Anyone know why this is so? Ryan- On 4/4/03 11:01 AM, James Higginbotham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Search the archives at www.mail

RE: Survey: Nightly build or 1.0.16?

2003-04-04 Thread James Higginbotham
Well, my choice was not necessarily based on feature sets, but AFAICT from the past messages exchanged here, the nightly version has better DeltaV support and many bug fixes. I think that a version was to be cut soon (beta at the least), but the primary maintainers are really busy. Besides, I

RE: new to slide

2003-03-31 Thread James Higginbotham
If I understand your problem correctly, you are offering a servlet and/or JSP web gui that will show files from a remove WebDAV server? If so, I'd suggest writing your servlets anyway you need to and using the Slide WebDAV client libraries. They will make the properly formed HTTP connection to a

RE: slide portability

2003-03-31 Thread James Higginbotham
As for JBoss, I've got it running on JB 3.0.4 with Tomcat, and have written a custom login module to authenticate against slide. Check the mail archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/slide-user%40jakarta.apache.org/ for my recent email on the steps I took to get it working such that another war

RE: About user authenication and authorization

2003-03-31 Thread James Higginbotham
-Original Message- From: Wong Kam Lai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 12:17 AM To: Slide Users Mailing List Subject: About user authenication and authorization I know that I can config server.xml in tomcat to use 'SlideRealm'. Actually, what's the use? It

RE: About user authenication and authorization

2003-03-31 Thread James Higginbotham
Where is the source code? I would like to follow it so that I don't need to restart tomcat each time when I add/delete users and change the permissions for users The docs say its called SlideRealm.. Searching the source tree using grep yielded -

RE: About user authenication and authorization

2003-03-31 Thread James Higginbotham
I mean .. can I set the permission for each data file? so that the file, e.g. abc.doc, not a path, can only be read/written by a particular group/user? I'm sure that you can, just not sure how.. You may want to just follow the source code from SlideRealm to see all the surrounding logic on

RE: Slide on JBoss (was Listing Revisions)

2003-03-26 Thread James Higginbotham
. Have you been able to get slide working as an Mbean or have you gotten slide working another way? Ryan- On 3/25/03 10:50 AM, James Higginbotham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm in the process of creating a web page to view the list of revisions for a resource. I am seeing only

RE: Example

2003-03-26 Thread James Higginbotham
I just use the xxxMethod.java classes to learn how to perform webdav-compliant work against the slide API. Its also useful to understand more about how to interact with the lower-level APIs but can be confusing. The taglib is also good to understand how to perform read methods against the API, but

RE: Http Session Question

2003-03-26 Thread James Higginbotham
If you have written the filter, what does it expect? If you have BASIC authentication turned on, then the http client that the webdev client uses for transport allows you to add the username/password for such a case (see the command line slide client as an example). If you've written a custom

RE: Example

2003-03-26 Thread James Higginbotham
Thanks. You said the AclMethod LockMethod for webdav client API etc? Those are class files so I need to decompile to get java files and follow those java files? Yes, if you want to learn how to invoke the Slide kernel APIs (low-level) directly from Java. If you want to invoke Slide via HTTP

RE: WebDAV JCR

2003-03-24 Thread James Higginbotham
Paul, You may want to check the mailing list archives at www.mail-archive.com - I believe there are actually 2 JSRs that the slide team is cooperating on. James -Original Message- From: Paul Hussein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 9:51 AM To: Slide User

RE: [newbie]Exposing dbms (oracle) through webdav??

2003-03-24 Thread James Higginbotham
Interesting approach. My guess is that Slide is a little heavy to do what you want, but you might want to look at the wedbav server source code - specifically, the xxxMethod.java sources. You may be able to better understand how it interacts with the underlying store API to determine how to

RE: Using a file upload form to add content to slide

2003-03-21 Thread James Higginbotham
My guess is that for allowing a web form to push data in, you will need to perform the necessary steps to obtain the multipart data (struts has some helpers there, plus Kevin's email link as well), then you have to use the SlideToken and NamespaceAccessToken for the currently logged-in user to

RE: Match+Gas = Slide status (was: newbie question about slide future)

2003-03-20 Thread James Higginbotham
Remy and Jeremy, To do a release, we need a release manager to propose/build/upload the release(s). I was the RM for Slide 1.0.x, but I don't have time to work on Slide right now. So since you apparently want to volunteer. However, you'll need to become a committer first to be able

RE: First Cut of a Revised Slide Architecture

2003-03-17 Thread James Higginbotham
Hi Willie! One of the factors that can broaden Slide's acceptance is having more data stores and making existing ones more flexible and powerful. I think data storage should attract more attention by raising its visibility if it is not a separate level in its own right. Agreed. I

RE: First Cut of a Revised Slide Architecture

2003-03-15 Thread James Higginbotham
-Original Message- From: Kevin Moran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 1:24 PM To: Slide Users Mailing List Subject: RE: First Cut of a Revised Slide Architecture James, Thank you for the clarification. That does in fact help. While I think more

RE: Slide status (was: newbie question about slide future)

2003-03-14 Thread James Higginbotham
nice, if you find yourself in the position doing this in Slide (IMO). Best regards Juergen -Original Message- From: James Higginbotham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Donnerstag, 13. März 2003 16:52 To: Slide Users Mailing List Subject: RE: Slide status (was: newbie

RE: Slide status (was: newbie question about slide future)

2003-03-14 Thread James Higginbotham
up with. I'd be interested to know what Abstractions people are interested in first. I think EJB and Webdav are obvious choices. Are there folks interested in other interfaces in the very near term? Larry James Higginbotham wrote: Juergen, Thanks so much for answering all

First Cut of a Revised Slide Architecture

2003-03-14 Thread James Higginbotham
[Sorry - want to send as a new subject for better discussion tracking] Great, so it sounds like others may be interested in the advantages of this. What I'm thinking is a proxy pattern coupled with whatever else makes sense.. Here are some initial thoughts and outstanding questions: 1) I would

RE: First Cut of a Revised Slide Architecture

2003-03-14 Thread James Higginbotham
-Original Message- From: Kevin Moran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 5:42 PM To: Slide Users Mailing List Subject: Re: First Cut of a Revised Slide Architecture James, I like your layered approach to the APIs. Thank you for putting it together.

RE: Slide status (was: newbie question about slide future)

2003-03-13 Thread James Higginbotham
Juergen, I regret, if you are unhappy with the current Slide situation. Slide consists of many pieces (e.g. WebDAV client API, server, cm API, GUI and command line clients, etc). Some of those are actively worked on; some of those are currently under lower development. Thanks for the

RE: newbie question about slide future

2003-03-13 Thread James Higginbotham
This is interesting.. I have never understood the relationship of the Jakarta group wrt resources. If I'm hearing that someone or some group within the Jakarta group has pulled off assigned commiters to work on another project, then some underlying initiative would have to be greater than

RE: newbie question about slide future

2003-03-12 Thread James Higginbotham
I've experienced the same thing.. Actually, I want to put together a proposed architecture change and either get commit access or just branch and be a rebel ;) Here is what I'd like to see: 1) break the webdav client out into a separate project - it should belong in commons, not in Slide 2) break

RE: newbie question about slide future

2003-03-12 Thread James Higginbotham
) and the final release is planned for october 2003. It's probably a far better idea to wait for this (and hopefully contribute to it) than making a branch. Eelco Hillenius - Original Message - From: James Higginbotham [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Slide Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED

Locking Question

2003-03-06 Thread James Higginbotham
Hi, I'm am trying to programmatically lock a resource for editing from within my struts action.. In trying to understand how to properly construct the various pieces required to lock a resource, I went to the obvious place - LockMethod.java. In the executeRequest() method, there seems to be a

RE: Low level slide api

2003-03-05 Thread James Higginbotham
I believe that the kernel, roles, and stores are needed. The jdom and webdav servlet jars are for the webdav side of the world, iir. I might be wrong, but this should be a good start to see it all work properly. One thing that I found out: there is not API abstraction right now to allow you to

RE: Slide and JBoss Authentication

2003-02-25 Thread James Higginbotham
, James -Original Message- From: Adam Booth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 3:20 AM To: James Higginbotham; Slide Users Mailing List Subject: RE: Slide and JBoss Authentication Hi James, I haven't put the JBoss login module together yet

RE: Versioning woes (resolved)

2003-02-25 Thread James Higginbotham
to the internals of Slide? Thanks, James -Original Message- From: James Higginbotham Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 7:19 AM To: Slide Users Mailing List Subject: RE: Versioning woes Thanks Martin and Peter for your quick responses.. After some further debugging, I've found the following

RE: Slide and JBoss Authentication

2003-02-25 Thread James Higginbotham
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]James Higginbotham/a */ public class SlideLoginModule extends UsernamePasswordLoginModule { /** * Initializes the login module with the references to its environment * @see javax.security.auth.spi.LoginModule#initialize(Subject, CallbackHandler, Map, Map) */ public

RE: Slide and JBoss Authentication

2003-02-24 Thread James Higginbotham
Adam, Did you ever compose that JBoss login module? Just wondering if someone submitted one to you or if you composed one that you could share.. Thanks, James -Original Message- From: Adam Booth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 4:47 AM To: [EMAIL

RE: Struts Admin Example not threadsafe?

2003-02-19 Thread James Higginbotham
a problem. You just have to ensure that your execute method (perform is deprecated) is thread safe. Regards Jim. - Original Message - From: James Higginbotham [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 3:27 AM Subject: Struts Admin Example

Struts Admin Example not threadsafe?

2003-02-18 Thread James Higginbotham
Hi, I am attempting to start using the struts admin example as a starting point for building out a UI for my users to browse and eventually edit content via the web. I noticed that the struts admin classes all extend the base AdminAction.java class. In that class, the perform() method initilaizes

RE: Object Relational Repository

2003-01-30 Thread James Higginbotham
I think OJB is meant for that, as Slide primarily is designed for HTTP document exchange.. http://jakarta.apache.org/ojb James -Original Message- From: Java Developer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 11:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Object

RE: Slide Admin question (and JSP webdav client)

2003-01-27 Thread James Higginbotham
Is it possible to create new users with the webdav API? I don't think so, since a node for a user must implement UserRole and this kind of node is not created by the WebDAVServlet. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Slide is using standard storage mechanisms that it uses for other nodes in the

RE: WebDAV JSP client webapp deployed in another web server

2003-01-27 Thread James Higginbotham
I couldn't agree more.. I am actually reevaluating my choice of Slide based primarily on this recent revelation. background I had originally gone to webdav for its standards-based approach, thinking that I could find some Mac OS/9 and Windows 95+ client solutions, but I am afraid to support a

RE: Slide Admin question (and JSP webdav client)

2003-01-26 Thread James Higginbotham
AM To: Slide Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Slide Admin question James Higginbotham wrote: I am trying to start a webdav web interface for my user base, and decided to use the slide admin as a starting point. I have a war inside an ear that is deployed within jboss. It seems

Slide Admin question

2003-01-25 Thread James Higginbotham
I am trying to start a webdav web interface for my user base, and decided to use the slide admin as a starting point. I have a war inside an ear that is deployed within jboss. It seems that when I hit the index.jsp, it complains that Domain.xml can't be found. Why is it even looking for this -

RE: Deploy Slide in JBoss/Tomcat

2003-01-20 Thread James Higginbotham
Funny, I'm doing the same thing.. I unjar'ed the war and put it in deploy as a folder called slide.war, using JB 3.0.4 + Tomcat.. It works fine for me, thought the repos is in bin/repository until I change it. I too am planning to put together a GUI to manage webdav.. Sort of a poor man's CMS

User datasources (was compiled slide but can not connect to http://localhost:8080/slide)

2003-01-16 Thread James Higginbotham
That means, Slide must know about your users AND Tomcat must know. Because Tomcat does authentication and Slide does authorization. See the following message: I hope this isn't the case always, but rather just the slide defaults.. Please tell me that either the JDBC or J2EE datastores will

Resend: Ant Get Task Problems

2003-01-10 Thread James Higginbotham
Can someone verify this for me? I'm not sure if its configuration or a bug... Thanks, James -Original Message- From: James Higginbotham Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 9:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Ant Get Task Problems Hi, I am trying to use the Ant Get task

RE: WebDAV clients with built-in editors

2003-01-09 Thread James Higginbotham
whether Mac OS is supported. Regards, Peter -Original Message- From: James Higginbotham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 17:16 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: WebDAV clients with built-in editors I am currently looking for a client

Re: slide without metadata

2003-01-08 Thread James Higginbotham
Out of curiousity, what would it take to make Slide support content not checked in through it? Is it just a matter of watching the repository directory and triggering an API or something more than that? -Original Message- From: Andreas Probst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

RE: slide without metadata

2003-01-08 Thread James Higginbotham
inside the repository. It would be rather hard to explain, why putting files in is allowed but renaming, deleting and changing is forbidden. And it would be senseless for other stores than FileContentStore. Just my thoughts... On 8 Jan 2003 at 9:24, James Higginbotham wrote: Out

Ant Get Task Problems

2003-01-08 Thread James Higginbotham
Hi, I am trying to use the Ant Get task to recursively fetch an entire tree from a Slide file repository (default settings + versioning turned on). I'm having trouble even getting a simple html file down using it, as it never finds a match and says it is downloading 0 files. I'm using the CVS

RE: Slide-Admin Error

2002-12-19 Thread James Higginbotham
Which version of Slide are you using? I have a nightly from 12-9 and it fails on deploy saying its missing an apache commons lib. I'll put in the lib and try again, but wondering which nightly or release you may be using.. BTW, that nightly works fine when using it from IE 6 on XP and the

JSR 147

2002-11-22 Thread James Higginbotham
Hi, I know its early, but I was wondering if anyone on the Slide team is part of the JSR 147 team.. For those new to this JSR, here is some info and Javadoc for the potential API: http://www.webdav.org/deltav/wvcm/index.html Just wondering, as its not a large requirement from my POV. James

RE: Labeling and Workflow

2002-11-12 Thread James Higginbotham
Yes. See the DeltaV LABEL method for details - this works well in slide. Is there a direct API for this, or do I have to make a remote call? I'm new and trying to gather my thoughts regarding how I will be assembling my CMS application. Thanks, James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Questions about XML documents, slide implementations, and

2002-11-05 Thread James Higginbotham
Hi, I am looking into writing a web content mgmt system using Slide, and currently use XML plus XSLT to produce the HTML from an Ant script nightly. I want to move the content over to slide and begin creating a simple web-based UI for end-users to edit, review, and publish content. I have a few