Everything you need to know is here:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/berkeley-db/xml/index.html

It's an Apache Software License:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/berkeley-db/htdocs/xmloslicense.html

Happy to share notes as we go along.

Are you connecting to db4o using Lift or Scala? Or is it in another project?

Chas.

Erick Fleming wrote:
> Chas,
> 
> I'm not doing web services yet in my current project, but have plans to. 
> 
> I've been using db4o as my backend, but am interested in Berkley DB.  Do 
> you know what license it's under?  The Oracle website just says Open Source.
> 
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Charles F. Munat <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     One thing I'm working on is a two-part application that involves a Lift
>     interface app and a REST CRUD back end. I plan to do the back end in
>     Lift as well.
> 
>     One reason for the separation is that it allows me to build other front
>     ends for the web service (a desktop app, something on the iPhone, an
>     Android app, etc.). Another reason is that the data model is pretty
>     complicated, and instantiating a lot of objects is not really necessary.
>     If I can handle the back end as just data, rather than objects, passing
>     it in and out using XML, that would be faster and easier, I think. And I
>     could use an XML database to store the data.
> 
>     A big issue, of course, is authentication and authorization. I'm
>     wondering if anyone else here is doing web services and if so how you're
>     handling authentication/authorization. Are you using Lift, or are you
>     handling it through the container. Can anyone talk about pros/cons of
>     the different methods? Suggestions?
> 
>     We're thinking about using Berkeley DB XML as the database. Anyone tried
>     that?
> 
>     Thanks.
> 
>     Chas.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > 

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