Stefan Armbruster stefan@armbruster-it.de \ This plugin provides a WEBDAV interface for grails. It's core functionalitiy is to provide support for exposing your domain model to a webdav interface. For the underlying webdav stuff, the webdav-servlet project (http://webdav-servlet.sourceforge.net/index.html) is used. Thanks to those folks for providing a open source webdav servlet implementation. So the plugin code itself is nothing more than a small integration layer. To use webdav in your app you need to take the following steps: 1) add a webdav definition part to your Config.groovy Example 1: grails.webdav = [ webdav: [ url: '/webdav/*', init: [ rootpath: System.properties.'java.io.tmpdir', storeDebug: 1, 'no-content-length-headers': 0, lazyFolderCreationOnPut: 0 ] ] A webdav share with the internal name 'webdav' is accessible under http://localhost:8080/<app>/webdav Example 2: grails.webdav = [ webdav1: [ url: '/webdav_folder1/*' ], webdav2: [ url: '/webdav_folder2/*' ], webdav3: [ url: '/filesystemview/*, init: [ rootpath: System.properties.'java.io.tmpdir', storeDebug: 1, 'no-content-length-headers': 0, lazyFolderCreationOnPut: 0 ] ] Provides three webdav shares: webdav1 maps to http://localhost:8080/<app>/webdav_folder1 and webdav2 maps to http://localhost:8080/<app>/webdav_folder2. The third one provides some servlet init parameters. Buy default no webdav folder is enabled. 2) implement a service class implementing WebdavMapper for each entry in your webdav configuration This class defines the contents of your webdav shares. There's a special naming convention for these service classes: WebdavMapper_<internalname>Service.groovy So for the above example 1 you have to implement WebdavMappper_webdavService, for example 2 you need WebdavMapper_webdav1Service and WebdavMapper_webdav2Service. These service should be in the root package (aka no package declaration) If the plugin does not find your service class for a specific webdav share, it falls back and uses the net.sf.webdav.LocalFileSystemStore to expose a local directory to webdav. 3) prevent Grails UrlMapping acting on Webdav-URLs: add an exlcude setting in your UrlMappings.groovy Example: class UrlMappings { static mappings = { "/$controller/$action?/$id?"{ constraints { // apply constraints here } } "500"(view:'/error') static excludes = ["/webdav_folder1/*"] // repeat this one for each of your webdav shares } http://grails.org/Webdav+Plugin BuildConfig Config DataSource UrlMappings org.codehaus.groovy.grails.webdav.AbstractWebdavMapperService