Tim Bunce wrote:
And nobody mentioned JDBC as a potential model. Odd that.
I was sorely tempted to do so (and did mention it a few times in my posts, along w/ ODBC and ADO.NET), but there are some things about JDBC which rub me the wrong way (e.g., explicit set/get methods for every data type; no true binding support; the lame "bulk" interface; etc.). I'm not crazy about all the DataSource business, either. But the threading support, the Factory pattern presented by Statement classes, the nice separation of metadata from statements/resultsets/connections, and XA would certainly be nice models to follow. One area of concern I have is the ability to subclass. I've been struggling w/ trying to subclass+extend JDBC the same way I subclass DBI for some things, and haven't found any app-neutral solutions just yet (trying to wrap another JDBC driver and expose its driver specific methods seems to require a lot of extra heavy lifting).
Still, I'm sure things will liven up once I've put an initial sketch together... Tim.
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