Here one more link to a nice overview written up by Thomas about persistence possibilities and techniques. Most of you will already know this: http://openehr.org/FAQs/t_persistence_notes.htm
On 6/1/07, Thilo Schuler <thilo.schuler at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Bernard > > I have just made post the should cover part of your question. As > mentioned in this post the kernel component is central to the > architecture of an openEHR system as it brings the two models > together. For persistence many solutions would be possible. Like XML > (that what Ocean Informatics uses in their EhrBank product) or an > object-relational-mapping solution. But it should be noted that just > instances of the reference model need to be persisted including > references to the archetypes used to create the instances. The > archetypes can be retrieved again separately when the persisted data > is loaded through the kernel. > > For Java kernel code have a look at > http://svn.openehr.org/ref_impl_java/TRUNK/project_page.htm > > Thilo > > On 5/31/07, B21Fern at aol.com <B21Fern at aol.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hi Thilo > > > > I saw your most helpful account on openEHR archetypes etc in the > > technical at openehr.org. Do you know of an account describing an end to end > > example of it for a medical data value, say blood pressure. How it is really > > implemented in the database to the interface design and why etc. If we take > > blood pressure as an example, I assume there will be many archetypes > > involved and at another level certain amount of say Java classes. > > > > Thanks > > > > Bernard Fernando (GP) >

