On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 03:19 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
Personally I'd very much like to see dbxml integrated with Cocoon in some way - as Cocoon processes XML natively it would make a lot of sense to be able to store it in an industrial-strength native XML database, which I assume dbxml is or is going to be.
Industrial strength!
Does dbxml implement an industry-standard API (assuming there is one), or would a specific API be needed to interface with it?
There is a kind-of a standard API for XML databases, but it's not a very good one, and
doesn't have the backing of an established standards organisation. So the interface
code would have to be written to our dbxml API.
The Cocoon xmldb block uses the org.xmldb API, but IIUC it is limited to querying databases.
I don't know anything about this, so can't really comment.
Note also that the Cocoon team would need to look at dbxml's license to see if it can be distributed with Cocoon. IIUC correctly from sleepycat.com, dbxml's license is viral unless one pays a license, and AFAIK this is not compatible with licensing requirements for an Apache project.
The license is open source... but prevents binary redistribution without a license
from Sleepycat. This is how we fund the development of the code.
Who's the final authority for licensing decisions for the Apache project?
John
