Make entity engine a standalone database access tool/API
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Key: OFBIZ-4153
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-4153
Project: OFBiz
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: framework
Reporter: Raj Saini
Priority: Minor
>From the user mailing list:
I was picturing the entity engine as a lower level artifact - like a jar file.
I don't have all of the details worked out yet, but what I picture is this:
1. An application needs a database-agnostic data store.
2. The application accesses the data store though the entity engine API/ jar
library.
Ofbiz has a very convenient way of defining databases, tables, and views as XML
files. Plus, it has the ability to create/modify table/index structures during
start-up. I believe that would be a very handy tool for anyone wanting to
create any application that requires data storage.
Wrapping the entity engine jar file in an OSGI bundle would be trivial.
If anyone is interested in exploring this further, then they should create a
Jira issue and we can take it from there.
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