| Name | Briefcase Portlet |
|---|---|
| Version | |
| Author(s) | [Rutgers University] and [KUMC] |
| Homepage | |
| Issue Tracking | http://www.ja-sig.org/issues/browse/BCP |
| License | |
| Release Docs | |
| Java API Docs | |
| Download Source | https://www.ja-sig.org/svn/portlets/briefcase/ |
Description/Features
The Briefcase portlet allows users to upload files to a server for storage and later download, and perform basic file management including creating folders, moving/renaming files, etc.
Briefcase has a pluggable backend, currently with support for SFTP and WebDAV.
Source Code
The source code for the Briefcase Portlet is now available in the JA-SIG Subversion Repository.
Comments (6)
Dec 16, 2004
Brad Johnson says:
Does the Briefcase Portlet support storing files on the local server?Does the Briefcase Portlet support storing files on the local server?
Dec 16, 2004
Andrew Petro says:
There's an interface for the backing store. Currently there's an SFTP implementa...There's an interface for the backing store. Currently there's an SFTP implementation and a WEB-DAV implementation. I don't see a simple local filesystem implementation, but presumably it wouldn't be that hard to write one that, say, used a folder on the disk, stored within that folder a folder for each user, and used each user's folder as the backing store for that user's briefcase. Would be good for simple deployments and to try out the feature. probably isn't what one would want to use in production at many schools tho – I would think many schools would want to point it at the central filestore they're already offering their constituency through technologies like SFTP, WebDav, mapped drives (Samba) etc.
I'd love to see this simple local folder as backing store implementation made available, tho. It would make it easier to try out the portlet.
Jan 02, 2005
Jason Shao says:
You can currently test the portlet fairly simply using tomcat's default webdav c...You can currently test the portlet fairly simply using tomcat's default webdav context.
Dec 16, 2004
Jason Shao says:
It doesn't currently support local server space, but as Andrew said, it should b...It doesn't currently support local server space, but as Andrew said, it should be relatively straight forward to implement. Freddy Lopez from Unicon did a majority of the implementation work, and would probably be the best person to ask.
In our usecase, we actually wanted to avoid using resources on the portal server. Since Rutgers (and many other schools) allocate student disk space for email/web/etc. our thinking was that we wanted to hook into those resources.
Dec 29, 2004
Jason Shao says:
I'm currently looking at replacing the current backing implementation with one b...I'm currently looking at replacing the current backing implementation with one based upon Jakarta Commons VFS at which point any of the supported backend providers should be available for use.
Aug 19, 2008
Stephen Barrett says:
Seems development on this has stopped eh?Seems development on this has stopped eh?