[Building Sakai] alternative to webdav in sakai

[Gao Jun]

Yes, it's a problem. In Fudan University, few people is familiar with 
WebDAV. Many instructors and students ask us about how to use it.

So, in our plan, we're going to provide a FTP-based method to the users.

Here's our architecture:
1. Based on Apache FTP Server (http://mina.apache.org/ftpserver/), which 
is a 100% pure Java FTP server.
2. Implement some interface of it, UserManager, FtpFile, etc... (about 3 
interfaces). UserDirectoryService and ContentHostingService will help.
3. Making the custom FTP server as a tool in Sakai, and start it on 
startup. If in cluster environment, only one Tomcat instance should take 
the response. Maybe we'll add some attribute in sakai.properties like: 
ftp.start=true

BTW.
According to the Content Hosting Project 
(https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/CHS/Roadmap+for+JCR+Migration), 
a JCR based architecture will be used after Sakai 2.5. But I only find 
it in kernel-impl-experimental pack in kernel-1.1.9 and failed to find 
it in kernel-1.2.0. Has anyone used this feature?


On Mar,10, 2011 at 00:19, John Bush wrote:
> Over the years we've had continued problems with webdav.  The varying 
> behaviors of different clients, the special authentication that 
> doesn't play nice with SSO, and numerous other types of issues.  I'm 
> beginning to think about alternatives that would allow for big bulk 
> uploads that are more reliable.  Thinking about some type of browser 
> plugin, flash or otherwise.  Has anyone else done some research into 
> this already?
>
> -- 
> John Bush
> 602-490-0470
>
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-- 
Gao Jun
Fudan University, China

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