webDAV

On a yoga course a teacher said to the group, “Don’t try to remember everything I say. Some things will come back to haunt you later.”

So I was reviewing a couple of chapters of Marcelle Kratochvil‘s multimedia book and she mentioned DBFS. That jogged a memory of the DBFS demo stand at OOW12, where the guy told me that 12c will (probably) have WebDAV support for DBFS.

DBFS is a neat feature, but it’s a little frustrating if you are using any OS other than Linux because you are forced to use a client utility with limited functionality, rather than accessing it like a regular file system as you can on Linux using the FUSE project. If this WebDAV functionality does get released in 12c it will make it accessible from pretty much any OS or browser.

No, no this isn’t another DBFS post but a more simple and direct way of achieving the same

Just had a funny discussion with Roel Hartman regarding how to trick the Tomcat APEX 4 setup in believing that the virtual XFILES directory in the database was actually available on disk of the local server. This is probably not the way to solve this but should be realized via Tomcat / APEX 4. The OTN Development virtualbox environment with APEX 4 gets his “/i/” images via Tomcat from the directory.

#66cc66;">[oracle@localhost i#66cc66;">]$ pwd
#66cc66;">/home#66cc66;">/oracle#66cc66;">/apache#66cc66;">-tomcat#66cc66;">-6#66cc66;">.0#66cc66;">.20#66cc66;">/webapps#66cc66;">/ROOT#66cc66;">/i

The easiest solution would have been to copy the XFILES images and files in a directory called XFILES under the ROOT directory.