I thing this is the best solution. When can we get it :-)???
I am working with interbase  - there you can define updatable views,
too. But this is not the best way...

Regards,
Henner

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> Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Im 
> Auftrag von Luca Fossato
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 16. Oktober 2002 14:27
> An: dbforms-interest mailing list
> Betreff: [dbforms] proposal: Pluggable events system
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I resolved my "view -> parent table" problems.
> I had think about a "general solution"; the best one could be 
> a pluggable events 
> system.
> 
> Here's why:
> to switch between my view and the related table to obtain a 
> successfull delete 
> operation (choose the record from the view, delete it from 
> its original table)*, 
> I modified the DeleteEvent class.
> The modification I did is (IMHO) too much related to the 
> application I'm 
> developing, so I cannot return a contribution back to the 
> dbforms community.
> 
> The best thing to do (IMHO) is to provide a system where a 
> developer can write 
> its own event classes and then configure dbforms to:
> 
> a) set up the default event classes
> b) override those settings for a particular table
> 
> For example, the configuration file of the Jakarta Struts 
> framework defines a set of global forward elements that can 
> be used by all the defined actions. Any action can define its 
> forward elements, and those elements can ovverride the 
> elements defined into the global-forwards section.
> 
> So, the dbforms-config file could be extended in this manner:
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
> 
> <dbforms-config>
> 
>   <date-format>dd/MM/yyyy</date-format>
> 
>   <!-- table configuration -->
>   <table name="MYTABLE1">
>     <field name="MYID" fieldType="int" size="8" isKey="true"/>
>     ...
> 
>     <!-- the related interceptor -->
>     <interceptor className = "my.interceptors.MyInterceptorClass"/>
> 
>     <!-- custom events used by this table -->
>     <events>
>       <!-- override the insert event using my own class -->
>       <event type="insert" class="my.events.CustomInsertEvent" />
>     </events>
>   </table>
> 
>   <!-- this table will use the default event classes -->
>   <table name="MYTABLE2">
>     <field name="MYID2" fieldType="int" size="8" isKey="true"/>
>     ...
>   </table>
> 
>   ...
> 
>   <!--
>      -  default event classes
>      -
>      -  see org.dbforms.event.EventEngine class src
>      -  for the list of supported events
>      -->
>   <events>
>     <event type="insert" class="org.dbforms.event.InsertEvent" />
>     <event type="delete" class="org.dbforms.event.DeleteEvent" />
>     ...
>   </events>
> 
> 
>   <!--
>      -   well, the preview of the configuration of
>      -   [multiple connection + connectionProvider]
>      -   system
>      -->
>   <dbconnection
>     id                      = "jakarta-commons-dbcp"
>     isJndi                  = "false"
>     isPow2               = "true"
>     defaultConnection       = "true"
>     connectionProviderClass = "com.pow2.dao.JakartaConnectionProvider"
>     connectionPoolURL       = ""
>     conClass                = "org.postgresql.Driver"
>     name                    = 
> "jdbc:postgresql://myhost/mydb?charSet=ISO-8859-1"
>     username                = "postgres"
>     password                = ""/>
> 
> </dbforms-config>
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> [*]
> At the moment I'm using Postgresql, and it's possible to 
> define rules to get "updatable views". But to do that, 
> postgresql uses its own non sql-92 
> extensions...
> 
> 
> 
> Any comment ?
> 
> Thank you,
> Luca
> 
> 
> 
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