Hi Marcus,
I am very supportive of such an contribution being part of the Jersey
contribution source code base. There is no conflict. I think it would
make a great addition, with the potential to build upon it.
Do you plan to provide unit tests and some samples? I think both are
important in terms of adoption and scaling (as the project gets larger
it is not possible for one or two people to be experts in all areas).
BTW the issue you logged is a known one [1]. I think we can work
around it, but it also highlights a bug in the the 311 spec.
Paul.
[1]
https://jersey.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=145
On Dec 6, 2008, at 3:34 PM, Markus KARG wrote:
> Dear Jersey Team,
>
> I have developed partial support for WebDAV based RESTful web
> services based on pure JAX-RS (not Jersey-dependent). It works
> pretty well and would be a good starting point for some kind of
> "official" WebDAV support package. If nobody else is working on
> something like that, I'd like to complete this package and
> contribute it to java.net.
>
> So I need to know two things of you:
>
> (a) Whether my contribution would conflict with WebDAV plannings of
> somebody else / the "official" Jersey plannings? If that would be
> the case, I'd see no sense in completing my contribution, obviously.
>
> (b) Whether my contribution shall become something like a "Jersey
> Sub-Project" or whether I shall go my own ways and open an
> "unrelated" top-level project?
>
> Please send me your opinions! I don't want to create a concurrency
> situation with Jersey, but I also don't want to wait for years until
> there is a complete JAX-RS WebDAV support elsewhere.
>
> Thanks
> Markus
>