AwareDAV: a generic WebDAV notification framework and implementation

  • Authors:
  • Henning Qin Jehøj;Niels Olof Bouvin;Kaj Grønbæk

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Aarhus, Denmark;University of Aarhus, Denmark;University of Aarhus, Denmark

  • Venue:
  • WWW '05 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

WebDAV needs awareness support in order to be a full-fledged collaboration system, This paper introduces AwareDAV, a new WebDAV extension framework enabling shared awareness through event notification. By extending the WebDAV protocol with seven new request-methods and an extensible XML based event subscription scheme, AwareDAV supports fine grained event subscriptions over a range of transport mechanisms and enables a wide range of collaboration scenarios. This paper describes the design of AwareDAV, its API, experiences with its initial implementation, as well as a comparison with Microsoft Exchange and WebDAV-notify.