At 10:03 11/4/01 -0500, Levi Cook wrote:
>I'm not sure if this would be appropriate for commons or not, but I think
>its an issue that causes frequent inconvenience for jakarta developers &
>users...
>
>Basically, people want to see some non-trivial sample applications that
>demonstrate the role and capabilities of the jakarta tools. Unfortunately,
>"non-trivial", seems to mean that people want to see interaction with a JDBC
>datasource.
>
>Maybe I haven't done enough scouring, but there doesn't seem to be a JDBC
>implemenation that without significant setup and configuration baggage. For
>instance, I have a simple struts app. that I would eventually like to share,
>but I have a dependancy on MySQL, that prevents users from simply dropping
>the .war file into their container and firing up the app..
>
>Would it be sensible to create a pure-java JDBC driver that can handle flat
>files?? Or does it already exist, and I just missed it??
Theres already a few java db implementations around - most of jakarta/xml
land uses hypersonique for just this purpose. It was droppped by original
author but a new project started up on sourceforge hsql IIRC.
Cheers,
Pete
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