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        <author email="remm@apache.org">Remy Maucherat</author>
        <author email="ozeigermann@apache.org">Oliver Zeigermann</author>
        <title>The Jakarta Slide project</title>
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  <section name="Overview">
    <p>
      Welcome to the Jakarta Slide project! Slide is a content repository which can serve as a basis for a content
management system / framework and other purposes. It features:</p>
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    	<li>Full WebDAV Support</li>
    	<li>Basic DeltaV WebDAV Versioning Support</li>
		<li>Support for a variety of backend systems for storing the content
including different databases and file system storage</li>
		<li>Transactions and Locking for data integrity</li>
		<li>Flexible control over permissions at a per file level via support for the 
WebDAV ACL</li>
        <li>DASL support for any backend, extensible for using backends search
capabilities for higher scalability and less latency</li>
        <li>Binding support</li>
        <li>Simple installation as .war deployment</li>
        <li>'ready-to-run' binary distribution for Tomcat</li>
        <li>A fully featured WebDAV client library and command line client</li>
    </ul>
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  <section name="Introduction">

    <p>
      The Slide project main module is a content repository, which can be seen as a low-level <i>content management 
      framework</i>.  Conceptually, it provides a hierarchical organization 
      of binary content which can be stored into arbitrary, heterogenous, 
      distributed data stores.  In addition, Slide integrates security,
      locking, versioning, as well as many other services.
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    <p>
      It can integrate and manage data stored within external repositories, 
      requiring only small abstraction layers to be written for each 
      repository. That way, Slide can integrate the data
      from various physical locations in a hierachical and unified way.
      Slide uses can range from managing intranet application content to using it as a file server.
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    <p>
      Slide also offers a <a href="http://www.webdav.org">WebDAV</a> access 
      module (implemented as a servlet). WebDAV is an IETF standard endorsed by
      companies like Microsoft, IBM, Novell, Adobe and many others.
      It makes Slide an ideal choice for web-based content management. 
      All the data managed by Slide can be accessed through WebDAV, and enable
      remote administration and manipulation of the data managed by Slide 
      using standard third party tools, along with the custom ones provided
      in the Slide distribution as additional tools.
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