Paul Hussein wrote:
Thanks for the comments
As far as the client goes, I was thinking more of a client that gives
direct access like webdrive does, but with editing of acl's and
searching maybe like google desktop, all built-in to the windows
desktop, so you could map a network drive to a repoitory, search it,
click on a file and set the acl's.
I don't know how many of us I speak for, but one reason for working in
the Java world is to decouple us from the platform. But that is
slightly off topic.
Back in Java land, a "client" might make sense, either as an extension
to Commons-VFS (curious, that project already has webdav:// support), or
say, as an extension to the Eclipse framework, and/or as a NetBeans plugin.
For one of our applications, I've done work using the Slide client side
libraries to write a substitute for using a version control system.
Although I cannot contribute that code to a project (nor might anyone
want to look at it!), it does point the way to interesting client side
applications.
I agree that the DavExplorer client is very disappointing, but to me
that speaks to doing a better Java application, not necessarily trying
to tightly integrate into Windows as a native IFolder extension. I
agree that TortoiseCVS/SVN are very cool, but as a Linux user I'd much
rather have a high quality Java client and then worry about a platform
specific solution.
So I think there is a lot that you could do with the Slide client code
base that hasn't been done (publicly, at least).
-Eric.
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