Hi all, Weâve being using OJB for a while and we do like it. While we depart from the old paradigm (delegating the "important" stuff to the RDBMS) and we delegate OJB the real work, some opportunities/challenges come to our mind. And since data/object replication is one of those opportunities, we would like to address in a new project. We believe OJB is ready for a job like this.
Letâs say we have some data collection apps running in notebooks offsite. Thanks to OJB, the app runs on almost any RDBMS in every notebook (hsql, mysql, postgresql or any $$ vendor base rdbms) an in a main site storing the objects again in an opensource or $$vendor base dbms. Once the data collectors have a network connection available (either WAN or LAN) we would like them to "replicate" their objects with the main site or with other partners. Scheduled or ad-hoc replication, it just doesnÂt matter. OJB would do it no matter when or where. The apps have some business objects that will remain with little or no changes through their life cycle (like the old master tables) ; some others will face heavy updates (customers service requests). If any of you are familiar with it, Lotus Notes/Domino type of replication is the best model of the replication mechanism we would like to implement in this project (but remember, at an object or better business object level replication, not record/document level replication). LetÂs dream for a minute: OJB will let us replicate objects across different dbms, without even having the same schema (due to the repository.xml mapping magic!!!!) Among some other things, we will need to take care of things like unique ids across db replicas ( sequencers ), differential replication, replication conficts etc. Any frameworks or ideas out there? Any volunteers to start an "OJB replicator" contribution to this great framework? Finally and again: Thanks Thomas and the whole OJB team!. Best regards, Gustavo Faerman Buenos Aires, Argentina
