DLF Spring 2006
MIT's CWSpace
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What Is the LNI?
•The "Lightweight Network Interface" is:
•A remote API to control DSpace
•It's essentially WebDAV: Extensions to HTTP
–A SOAP (with WSDL) equivalent is provided
•It's a mapping: —
–a "complete and comprehensive" view of the DSpace public object API…
•(the "business logic" layer)
–…as mapped to WebDAV semantics
DAV = "Distributed Authoring and Versioning"  more on that in a moment.
Note: There is also a SOAP (with WSDL) equivalent interface.

It's a Web-based protocol — a remote API to control DSpace
It's at the DSpace application layer — a peer of the Web U/I, can run in same servlet container

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We'll have a micro-intro to WebDAV, but first let's spend a moment on that DSpace object model