You are right,
I should have said, if you vote to keep the factory-class in the
meta-data then i would like to see some attributes of sequence standardized.
"That way we get parsing validation"
I dont understand what you mean by this.
Abe White wrote:
1. Remove factory-class from the metadata. It's too much work for
this late in the project. All sequences would be implemented by the
JDO vendor.
+1
"I wouldn't mind having the sequence-property elements as you
describe, and standardizing the semantics of those that are most
likely to be needed, e.g. InitialValue, Increment. "
+1
I don't think it makes any sense to have sequence-property elements
without a factory-class. If we want the user to be able to specify
additional standard sequence information such as initial value and
increment, we should add corresponding attributes to the sequence XML
element. That way we get parsing validation. The only advantage of
the proposed sequence-property elements was that they could
communicate arbitrary information to a user's sequence impl; without a
factory-class that advantage is moot.
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Karan Singh
