Feature proposal for JDO 2.1 maintenance: current DB time

[Jörg von Frantzius]

Dear experts, there had been several occasions where in our applications we had to determine the database server's current time(-stamp). In one application we needed it to synchronize sent JMS messages with visibility of commits in the database, and in another we need it for our simple replication algorithm. In distributed systems in general it is often crucial for synchronization purposes to have a common source of time information that is accessible from all processes. It would be great if JDO2 could offer a way of doing that independently of the database, e.g. as a JDOQL function. Regards, Jörg