Re: [bdbxml] Developing a local (Swing) front-end

Just a small note.  I'm looking fwd to working w/ you all...the comments 
and insights have been great.  I can guarantee quality server side code, 
and look forward to a good schooling on the practical XML side of 
things.  Make sure you send your sf acct info to webhiker if interested...

-tom

ps - Mark, i studied finance at Wharton, and we typically belittled 
Harvard guys...but that's just because we were jealous!  And that was a 
long time ago...

Mark R. Diggory wrote:

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> Philipp Suter wrote:
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>> Here is a quote from an email of the abovely mentioned discussion:
>> "One thing you might want to ponder on before you get started, and 
>> which a quick perusal of the spec might not make immediately 
>> apparent, is that Xml:DB is based on nestable Collections.
>> At fiest glance, the XmlContainer maps quite nicely onto Xml:DB 
>> Collections, however, unlike Sleepycat, in which all containers are 
>> flat, Xml:DB allows Collections to contain other Collections as well 
>> as XML documents.
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> The nice thing here is that Collections are optional in XMLDB Core 0. 
> You can get away without them initially and just treat the container 
> as one common collection.
>
>> This might make translating the XQUery or XPath statements a bit more 
>> tricky, since one needs to traverse child collections when evaluating 
>> the expressions.
>
>
> An initial implementation as one common collection avoids this until a 
> collection strategy can be designed/developed.
>
>> But perhaps you can use the metadata storage capabilities of Sleepcat 
>> to store this info about relationships between Collections. "
>>
>
> Yes, and later, if further collection information can be aggregated in 
> the metadata of a Resource, theres possibly a means to approach the 
> idea of the collection through some sort of merging of XQueries 
> against that metadata information. However, if there were a means to 
> reorganize the structure of BDBXML so that it supported Collection 
> hierarchies intrinsically in the organization of its datastore, then 
> that would be a very powerful feature thats already present in many 
> Native XML databases, sounds like something that I would want in 
> BDBXML as a feature even at the level of the BDBXML api.
>
> ...
>
>>> I'll get the server done by weeks end i hope...
>>>
>>> My last ? is what platform people would want a pkg for.  I'm doing 
>>> the dev work on linux x86, but also have a sparc solaris 
>>> workstation, and windoze machines...feedback from those interested 
>>> in testing...
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>> I could test on windows and os x if anybody is interested in os x. 
>> packaging is only possible for os x, I do not have any packaging 
>> tools for windows.
>>
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> RHEL, Fedora, rpm packaging would be great to have on these systems.
>
> -Mark
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