On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Gianugo Rabellino wrote: > Committers, > > I'd like to have your opinion about adding XML:DB stuff ad a default > component to the HEAD version of Cocoon. Given that there's been a lot > of talk about this API lately, and given also that Xindice is going to > come up shortly as an Apache project, I start to think that having the > XML:DB components compiled in by default will add visibility to this > newcomer in the Apache XML arena and let people play with it, possibly > contributing code. This would also avoid the risk of having sources out > of sync with the Cocoon development since the sources would be monitored > daily by the automatic build process. > > Adding the XML:DB stuff would mean adding the xmldb.jar to the lib > directory: since the archive sums up to only 9K I don't see this as an > issue. Of course one would still need a concrete implementation (such as > dbXML/Xindice, eXist or Ozone) to make it work (as with JDBC) but at > least the components would be there to play with. > > Let me know your opinion: here is my +1.
+1 > > Another issue, given that we would have a pseudo-protocol to work with, > is about removing the XML:DB Generators from the code base: an XML:DB > database can be queried as of now via a generic FileGenerator, so there > is no need for them anymore as separate components. I don't know > actually if there is anyone using those Generators, but if this has to > be done I think that it should be done now. +1 as well given the condition that nobody use it actually. Giacomo --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
