Re: [OSCOM] drag-n-drop solutions for ajax

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 01:28:47PM -0700, Oliver Crow wrote:
> I know that one can use FTP programs for these features but they have some 
> drawbacks.  The web application doesn't usually have callback hooks in the 
> FTP server to update server side databases when new files are uploaded. 
> Also, the FTP server doesn't usually share the same authentication 
> database as the CMS/web application.

roxen and sTeam can, and do, because they abstract the protocol away
from the server itself. so there is no seperate ftp server, but one
server that speaks multiple protocols (http, ftp, webdav...)

> Has anyone built a custom uploader into a CMS?  What technologies did you 
> use?  Plugins?  Java?  Helper apps?  Are there any open source programs to 
> do file upload to web based applications?

sTeam has implemented a binary ORB protocol (called COAL) with
implementations in pike, java, php, c/c++ (i'd love to see python here,
but i don't know enough python to do that)

using that protocol sTeam has a java client where i think drag-and-drop
is possible at least on windows.

sTeam also has an application launcher that makes access to files on the
server seamless with your favourite editor. that helps a lot towards
reducing the need to importing lots of files after an initial import of
the data.

since sTeam and roxen are only appservers that so far are only used
for small custom CMS stuff, i can't point to an example that actually
focuses on CMS use.

greetings, martin.
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