Ok, Bryan, Thanks for the quick reply, I thought there're some conventions that Derby devs follow, so thought to getting know about them before hand.
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Bryan Pendleton <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Is there any sort of document which will give some guide lines to >> write a new tool like ij ? > > I can't recall seeing one. > > I don't think that the program to extract query plan data from the XPLAIN > tables and format it as XML needs to be very complicated; it needn't be > anywhere near as complicated as 'ij', which is a very mature and complex > program. > > I think that open source software development works best when we pursue > small incremental improvements together as a community. It is easiest to > discuss the specifics of a piece of software when there is some proposed > software out there to discuss. > > So, don't worry too much about getting everything right the first time. Just > try to write a small simple program that > - connects to a database specified by the caller on the command line > - retrieves query plan data for a particular statement from the XPLAIN > tables in a particular schema, where both of those values are specified > on the command line > - formats the query plan data as XML and emits it to standard out using > System.out.println() > > As the saying goes: try to write the smallest thing that could possibly work, > then attach it to the JIRA issue and see what suggestions and observations > the community has. > > Does this make sense? > > thanks, > > bryan > -- Best Regards, Nirmal C.S.Nirmal J. Fernando Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.
