My qustion is: How would you go on implementing simple DMS(document management) based on following requirements?
Im already clear on what technologies I want to use. I will use Sring MVC, Hibernate and relational (most likely MYSQL) database.
One thing Im not very clear on is if I need to use webdav, since I could just upload or download documets. I thing I have to because I need to acomplish point 2. and especially point 3. somehow. Is this the right way to go?
Any examples or experience with this would come very handy :). May be Milton is not the best library to pick for webdav?
@Eduard, regarding dependencies on 3rd parties - are you doing this as a college/university exercise or something that will affect real users in a production environment?
At the risk of sounding very pretentious; don't reimplement the wheel! I'd definitely 2nd the call to use JCR, this way you are depending a standard and not a 3rd party implementation.
JCR is a well defined standard (that means a lot of people invested commercial effort (i.e. cash and expertise in huge amounts) into this). I would seriously reconsider looking into JCR - think of it as an API where 3rd parties provide the implementation (no vendor lockin).
Have a look at the features you'll get out-of-the-box, I believe 99 - 110% of the functionality you require is available through a JCR implementation. Plus you'll benefit from the fact the code you'll be using has been tested by hundreds of people in real world situations.
Where I'd differ from bmscomp is in suggesting JackRabbit http://jackrabbit.apache.org/