1) Do you have some sparetime this saturday(hey, it is valentine ;-))?
I have other things to do in my spare time (deadline on some stuff I am writing).
2) Which class should i extend?
You should - initially - not extend classes (due to us being in a freeze we should at least attempt to give the impression that we are restraining ourselves). You should create a new resource file (xml) with properties to configure the storage layer for Oracle.
3) Can i create my own namespace and put the classes into that? (so i can compile a jar agains the oracle jar's, and it can be distributed in an easy wasy(at this moment))
I personally am not in favor of code that is Oracle-specific. As I mentioned before, I would like to see a more generic approach.
Oracle-specific classes would lead again to the horrible confusion of code we had for the support classes (in which case we likely have to make a class for every other version).
For your own home-brewn project (or the sandbox cvs) that's fine, but for the CVS HEAD I prefer more generic classes.
If you intend to make a database-with-views class that is generic and not Oracle-specific, than that may eb interesting. You should in hat acse likely extend it from: org.mmbase.storage.implemenation.database.DatabaseStorageManager
4) Which resources do i have to modify or is it easier to place such files in the config directory for development?
You should make a resource oracle.xml that needs to be placed in org.mmbase.storage.implementation.database.resources
5) Is the make.flax.happy system property known to 1.7? (http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg02734.html) This way i can use the jar from 1.7 rc)
No, but I personally won't mind if you add it.
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