On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 06:25, Richard Schilling wrote:
> I've been cautiously approaching the idea of a) writing GT.M in Java; 
> b)using JNI to manipulate the MUMPS data stores; or c) writing a Java 
> application to store directly to MUMPS data/schema.  Did you see any 
> discussion on the feasability of that?

Java? Perhaps, but a native Python interface via the C/C++ API to the
GT.M data store would be very cool. Then parts of VistA could be
gradually re-written or extended in a more modern, object oriented
language which is just as productive as MUMPS. Is the C/C++ API
published anywhere?

> My initial impression is that it would be easier to just rewrite GT.M 
> interpreter in Java and provide a MUMPS API interface to the data.

Um, I wonder how many person-years went into GT.M - quite a few, I
suspect. Rewriting it in Java sounds like a very major undertaking.

Tim C

> 
> --Richard
> 
> 
> 
> On 2003.06.09 07:32 David Forslund wrote:
> > Yes, but I don't have any way to talk to it.   I would like to use 
> > it, but I don't see an API that I can get to from Java.
> > In discussions I had at the eGov workshop, it was indicated that I 
> > would have to write my own interfaces in M.
> > This is unacceptable.   If there is a Java API, I would be happy to 
> > incorporate it into our system.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Dave
> > At 10:20 AM 6/9/2003 -0400, Smith, Todd wrote:
> >> Hello David,
> >> 
> >> A high performance OODBMS is Sanchez Associates GT.M and has been 
> >> used
> >> according to their website in over 1000 banks internationally.  It 
> >> also has
> >> relational and hierarchical wrappers for multiple access modalities.
> >> 
> >> http://www.sanchez-gtm.com/
> >> 
> >> Todd Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> 
> >> From: David Forslund [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> >Can you point me to a good, scalable, adequately performing, open 
> >> source
> >> >OODBMS?   It isn't clear to me that ZODB meets these requirements, 
> >> and I>
> >> don't have a Java API to it.
> >> I've used storedobjects but it has some problems with scalability.
> > 
> 
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Tim C

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