+1. maybe "new Date()" could be the expression where evaluation occurs on the database.
Quoting Jörg von Frantzius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 >
