The WebDAV protocol enables you to use the third party tools to communicate with hierarchical content servers via HTTP. It is possible to add and remove documents or a set of documents from a path on the server. DeltaV is an extension of the WebDav protocol that allows managing document versioning. Locking guarantees protection against multiple access when writing resources. The ordering support allows changing the position of the resource in the list and sort the directory to make the directory tree viewed conveniently. The full-text search makes it easy to find the necessary documents. You can search by using two languages: SQL and XPATH.

In eXo JCR, we plug in the WebDAV layer - based on the code taken from the extension modules of the reference implementation - on the top of our JCR implementation so that it is possible to browse a workspace using the third party tools (it can be Windows folders or Mac ones as well as a Java WebDAV client, such as DAVExplorer or IE using File->Open as a Web Folder).

Now WebDav is an extension of the REST service. To get the WebDav server ready, you must deploy the REST application. Then, you can access any workspaces of your repository by using the following URL:

Standalone mode:

http://host:port/rest/jcr/{RepositoryName}/{WorkspaceName}/{Path}

Portal mode:

http://host:port/portal/rest/private/jcr/{RepositoryName}/{WorkspaceName}/{Path}

When accessing the WebDAV server with the URLhttp://localhost:8080/rest/jcr/repository/production, you might also use "collaboration" (instead of "production") which is the default workspace in eXo products. You will be asked to enter your login and password. Those will then be checked by using the organization service that can be implemented thanks to an InMemory (dummy) module or a DB module or an LDAP one and the JCR user session will be created with the correct JCR Credentials.

exo-domain {
     org.exoplatform.services.security.jaas.BasicLoginModule required domain=ecm;
};

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