Re: Possibly dumb question about 2.11

Gunnar,

Put you mind at ease-- what is going on here is very innocent. What
Pixory is downloading (actually it's Hibernate doing the download,
which is open-source software free for inspection:
http://hibernate.bluemars.net/) is not really code (it contains no
executable instructions). It's simply a declarative description of one
of files that Pixory uses to perform access on the embedded database.
In fact, you can paste that URL into a web browser and look at the
file contents yourself. Hibernate uses this "meta description" file
simply to ensure that the description file that I pass to it has the
correct text format. 

<switch to geek mode>

Technically, Pixory uses an XML (http://www.w3.org/XML/)
(http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_whatis.asp) file to describe how
information in the database is mapped into the application. Hibernate
wants to _validate_ this XML file (ensure that it has correct format)
and for that it needs a DTD (http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_dtd.asp).

<switch out of geek mode>

XML is used by almost all software (in one capacity or another)
written these days, and validation with a DTD is an extremely common
occurrence, which is probably happening in all sorts of software you
use without your knowledge (this is the age of the internet after all).

Anyhow, there is no reason why Pixory cannot include that DTD in it's
own distribution (removing the need to download) or turn off
validation. I plan to remove the requirement that the DTD be realtime
downloadable, so that machines which cannot access that URL will still
be able to run Pixory.

regards,

joe


--- In [email protected], Gunnar Heikkilä
<gunnar.heikkila.1@h...> wrote:
> Hi Joe,
> 
> a concerned question: It does not really feel good to run software 
> which fetches parts of its code in realtime from the internet. Of 
> course I have not a clue about what this code does, but the concept 
> seems to me rather risky.




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