Re: [Exist-development] Moving access method mechanisms...

[Andrzej J. T. <an...@ch...>]

Evgeny suggested:

> Think that we must move some eXist's functionality like
> webdav, atom, xmlrpc from servlet layer to xquery webapp.
> It will be more flexible. And developers could change
> functionality of  this webapp in they's application.
> So possible add virtual collections for webdav.
> 
> We need only some basic servlets like REST or XQueryServlet.

I would love to see some of these more "exotic" access mechanisms become optional plugins, that exist (pardon the pun)
outside of the core eXist code repository, as distinct sub-projects.  Sort of like the concept of external extensions
we've discussed.

Then users could more finely tune which components/access mechanisms they wanted to install/enable which would provide
for a lighter footprint, and smaller security surface being exposed.

+1 for making this stuff more modular and pluggable.

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Andrzej Taramina
Chaeron Corporation: Enterprise System Solutions
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