[opencms-dev] Re: External editing

[Alexander Kandzior]

AFAIK there is some Locking concept provided in WebDav. The lock needs to be
set with some optional timeout where it expires. Not sure about the details,
but some external WebDav browsers I checked out did have this feature. 

Best Regards,
Alex.

Alexander Kandzior
Alkacon Software - The OpenCms Experts
http://www.alkacon.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org 
> [mailto:opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org] On Behalf Of Ahmed Mohombe
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 9:25 PM
> To: opencms-dev at opencms.com
> Subject: [opencms-dev] Re: External editing
> 
> 
> M Butcher wrote:
> > Ahmed Mohombe wrote:
> > 
> >> M Butcher wrote:
> >>
> >>> Oh, I see... the client part would function more like the 
> >>> TortoiseSVN
> >>> client (Windows client for Subversion) -- it's main job 
> would be to 
> >>> synchronize between a remote and a local CMS repository.
> >>
> >>
> >> I thought that WebDAV does such a thing. The "client to be
> >> implemented" would be just a bridge between the WebDAV 
> client and the 
> >> desktop applications (those who does not speak WebDAV), 
> and to start 
> >> them.
> >> (looking in the source of that Zope module: does not seem 
> to do more :) )
> >> Am I right, or did I understood something wrong? :)
> > 
> > 
> > IIRC, WebDAV has no concept of locking or stateful editing. I don't 
> > know
> > of any extensions that do, either. 
> Hmm, funny, I've just played with Dreamweaver + jakarta Slide(webDav) 
> repository, and Dreamweaver really blocks the "check-outed 
> files" on the 
> server. Actually there's a small button  icon with "checkout 
> and block". 
> I'm not an WebDAV expert, but using "DAVExplorer-0.90", I can 
> "explore" 
> the WebDAV repository (the one from Slide), and I can see the files 
> locked by Dreamweaver. So, I may be wrong, but what I saw was 
> "Locking" :).
> 
> Ahmed.
> 
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