Index: jackrabbit-jcr-server/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/webdav/jcr/DefaultItemCollection.java
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--- jackrabbit-jcr-server/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/webdav/jcr/DefaultItemCollection.java	(revision 629142)
+++ jackrabbit-jcr-server/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/webdav/jcr/DefaultItemCollection.java	(working copy)
@@ -81,6 +81,8 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Date;
 import java.util.Iterator;
@@ -400,8 +402,31 @@
                 if (in == null) {
                     // PUT: not possible without request body
                     throw new DavException(DavServletResponse.SC_BAD_REQUEST, "Cannot create a new non-collection resource without request body.");
+                }
+                // PUT : create new or overwrite existing property.
+                String ct = inputContext.getContentType();
+                if (ct != null && ct.startsWith(ItemResourceConstants.VALUE_CONTENT_TYPE_FRAGMENT)) {
+                    // no need to create value/values property. instead
+                    // prop-value can be retrieved directly:
+                    int pos = ct.indexOf('/');
+                    int pos2 = ct.indexOf(';');
+
+                    String typename = ct.substring(pos+1, pos+2).toUpperCase() + ct.substring(pos+2, (pos2 > -1) ? pos2 : ct.length());
+                    String charSet = (pos2 > -1) ? ct.substring(pos2) : "UTF-8";
+                    int type = PropertyType.valueFromName(typename);
+                    if (type == PropertyType.BINARY) {
+                        n.setProperty(memberName, inputContext.getInputStream());
+                    } else {
+                        BufferedReader r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputContext.getInputStream(), charSet));
+                        String line;
+                        StringBuffer value = new StringBuffer();
+                        while ((line = r.readLine()) != null) {
+                            value.append(line);
+                        }
+                        n.setProperty(memberName, value.toString(), type);
+                    }
                 } else {
-                    // PUT : create new or overwrite existing property.
+                    // try to parse the request body into a 'values' property.
                     tmpFile = File.createTempFile(TMP_PREFIX + Text.escape(memberName), null, null);
                     FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(tmpFile);
                     IOUtil.spool(in, out);
Index: jackrabbit-jcr-server/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/webdav/jcr/ItemResourceConstants.java
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--- jackrabbit-jcr-server/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/webdav/jcr/ItemResourceConstants.java	(revision 629142)
+++ jackrabbit-jcr-server/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/webdav/jcr/ItemResourceConstants.java	(working copy)
@@ -59,6 +59,28 @@
 
     public static final String IMPORT_UUID_BEHAVIOR = "ImportUUIDBehavior";
 
+    /**
+     * Fragment for build the content type of request entities representing
+     * a JCR-value. The fragment must be completed as follows:
+     * <pre>
+     * jcr-value/ + Value.getType().toLowerCase()
+     * </pre>
+     *
+     * resulting in the following types:
+     * <pre>
+     * jcr-value/string
+     * jcr-value/boolean
+     * jcr-value/long
+     * jcr-value/double
+     * jcr-value/date
+     * jcr-value/binary
+     * jcr-value/date
+     * jcr-value/name
+     * jcr-value/path
+     * </pre>
+     */
+    public static final String VALUE_CONTENT_TYPE_FRAGMENT = "jcr-value/";
+
     // xml element names
     public static final String XML_PRIMARYNODETYPE = "primarynodetype";
     public static final String XML_VALUE = "value";