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

One thought I've had recently has to do with Eclipse and OSGi's ability 
to work with native libraries in its plugins. I think we can really tie 
together solutions for packaging BDBXML and BDB into Eclipse very 
elegantly using this mechanism.

An Eclipse OSGi based feature for BDB and BDBXML could provide the 
following functionality to anyone using Eclipse:

1.) platform specific plugins: mount native libraries using OSGi 
mechanisms to allow managing and instances of BDBXML and/or BerkelyDB 
embedded within Eclipse, including managing your SOAP services for 
accessing BDBXML/BDB.

2.) client plugins: provide java API's for accessing bdbxml/bdb using 
that above plugins, provides access to embedded or networked external 
SOAP based services. These include the Client Java API's for bdb, bdbxml 
bdbxml-soap, bdbxml-rpc and bdbxml-xmldb.

3.) standards based plugins: xmldb api etc.

4.) ui plugins: GUI interfaces are platform independent and based on XMLDB.

Thus the same above scenario could be applied to any XMLDB enabled 
datasource by providing drivers for xmldb on the eclipse classpath.

I'd also recommend we have a good hard look at the Eclipse WTP project 
for any web related Server/UI services we may want to provide bridges to.

http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/index.html

-Mark


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