The state of WebDAV Clients

I am a bit concerned at the state of WebDAV client
implementations in Java.

The slide project has been recently retired and Apache
recommends
using JackRabbit as an alternative.
JackRabbit does not currently have a WebDAV client
implementation
according to this post
(http://www.nabble.com/Webdav-Client-Exampl
es--tf4803755.html#a13852979).
Others in the industry like Eclipse, are using slide as the
basis for
their new EFS WebDAV implementation
(htt
p://wiki.eclipse.org/WebDAV_EFS_Implementation).

In all of my searching, I have yet to find a viable
alternative to
slide as a WebDAV client. I think it is clear that there is
a need for
a project like this. Has there been any though in starting
an Apache
Commons project to provide WebDAV support? My understanding
was that
the Slide client was stable and would probably provide a
good starting
point for a WebDAV client.

For more information on my WebDAV research see this post:
http://pragmaticchris.blogspot.com/2007/11/ja
va-webdav-clients.html

Thanks

Chris Dail
http://pragmaticch
ris.blogspot.com

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