Hadoop does WebDAV
There’s recently been some movement on HADOOP-496, the issue for exposing the Hadoop Distributed File System as a WebDAV store. Maximum respect to Enis Soztutar for sorting this out.
The patch hasn’t made it into SVN yet, but I hope it will show up there in a few weeks. Getting files onto your HDFS has never been this easy: add a new network place in Windows Explorer, open the folder, drag and drop! I’m pretty sure your favourite Linux desktop environment will have similar functionality.
I’ve also been running the litmus WebDAV server protocol compliance test suite against this Hadoop/WebDAV combination to test the patch. There’s still a few issues to fix, but things are looking good.
In case you want to add a WebDAV interface to your Java application, you might consider building it on top of Apache Jackrabbit, as this patch does. I took a brief look at doing what this patch does with Jakarta Slide, but even with the WebDAV Construction Kit to help you, Slide is a rather large beast.