WebDAV Distributed Authoring and Versioning分布式创作和版本控制.pptVIP

Adobe Technical Seminar Series, May, 1999 WebDAV:Distributed Authoring and Versioning Greg Stein / gstein@ Agenda Overview Technical Discussion Closing QA WebDAV Overview What is WebDAV?(1 of 4) Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning “DAV” is the usual short form Goal: enable interoperability of tools for distributed web authoring What is WebDAV?(2 of 4) Turns the Web into a writeable medium Applies to all kinds of content - not just HTML and images Based on extensions to HTTP What is WebDAV?(3 of 4) Properties (“metadata”) Documents can have associated metadata Browsing/searching metadata Overwrite protection Namespace management More in progress (described later) What is WebDAV?(4 of 4) Receives benefits of HTTP infrastructure Strong authentication Encryption Proxy/firewall navigation Worldwide deployment Huge talent pool; numerous tools, apps, etc Provides more infrastructure (continued) DAV InfrastructureOverview DAV can provide infrastructure for: Collaboration Metadata Namespace management Ordered collections Versioning Access control Searching DAV InfrastructureCollaboration Provides: Whole-resource locking enables remote, collaborative authoring of any media type (HTML, images, presentations, etc) Infrastructure for development of remote, collaborative authoring and editing tools DAV InfrastructureMetadata Provides: Property (name/value) pairs can be created, modified, deleted on any Web resource Values can be managed by server or client Values are well-formed XML Infrastructure for recording information about Web content DAV InfrastructureNamespace Management Provides: Copy, move, add, delete individual resources and collections/hierarchies of resources Manage ordering of collections’ resources Create references (links) on server Infrastructure for remote management of the organization and viewing of resources DAV InfrastructureVersioning Provides key features of WebDAV: Check in/out with comments and metadata Version graphs and hi