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Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:36:07 +0100
From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: WebDAV Paradigm Mismatch
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Mike Oliver wrote:
> ...
> But WebDAV on JackRabbit sucks.  The reason it sucks is that the WebDAV
> filesystem paradigm is what users, especially non computer scientist users
> expect and using WebDAV by going to My NetWork Places and adding a WebDAV
> folder needs to show Folders and Files.  With Slide this works Out of the
> Box and you can still download and install the Slide Tomcat bundle and start
> using it with WebDAV in a few minutes and use Microsoft Word to save a
> document to a Web Folder, and as long as Word has the document open, it is
> locked in Slide for all to see, Save it after some changes and it stays
> locked but you get a new version.  Close Word and the lock goes away.  You
> can have folders within folders and documents within folders.
> ...

I guess it would be helpful if you could elaborate on how exactly this 
doesn't work... (I think it's supposed to).

BR, Julian