Generally a connector complying to Sun's JCA specification is good
for plugging enterprise information systems (EIS) into J2EE
servers. Plugging means adding connections to them to the container's
connection pooling facilities and include the EIS into the container's
In the case of the WebDAV connector Slide is
such an EIS. All this allows to upload/download/modify resources to Slide in the same
transaction as e.g. EJB or JDBC stuff involving other datasources.