Re: Future of XSP and ESQL [was Re: An idea - transformer logicsheets.]

2004-02-02 Thread Torsten Curdt
But not being the database guy around here, I'm not the one to talk about these things so I'll be glad if somebody else wants to come forward. One thing is for sure: XSP is showing its age and we should move forward... but without loosing its value. Why not pull the ESQL stuff out and provide

Re: Future of XSP and ESQL [was Re: An idea - transformer logicsheets.]

2004-02-02 Thread Guido Casper
Torsten Curdt wrote: My idea is to come up with an unified syntax. Taking the best out of the SQLTransformer and the ESQL logicsheet. Then come up with an ESQL transformer and a logicsheet using the same code base (as much as possible). For an easy migration we could provide an ant task that

Re: Future of XSP and ESQL [was Re: An idea - transformer logicsheets.]

2004-02-02 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le Lundi, 2 fév 2004, à 11:45 Europe/Zurich, Guido Casper a écrit : Torsten Curdt wrote: ...I just hope it's worth the effort since everyone seems to be going the OJB way... It _is_ worth it IMHO since there is more to databases (like reporting applications) than persisting Java objects

Re: Future of XSP and ESQL [was Re: An idea - transformer logicsheets.]

2004-02-02 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
On 2 Feb 2004, at 04:37, Torsten Curdt wrote: But not being the database guy around here, I'm not the one to talk about these things so I'll be glad if somebody else wants to come forward. One thing is for sure: XSP is showing its age and we should move forward... but without loosing its

Re: Future of XSP and ESQL [was Re: An idea - transformer logicsheets.]

2004-02-01 Thread Ryan Hoegg
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: On 1 Feb 2004, at 19:27, Steve Krulewitz wrote: I still find the esql taglib to be a very useful and easy way to go from SQL query to an XML document. If xsp is deprecated, the only other way to easily do this is the SQLTransformer, but it is lacking many of the

RE: Future of XSP and ESQL [was Re: An idea - transformer logicsheets.]

2004-02-01 Thread Conal Tuohy
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: snip/ I think that the ESQL logicsheet is the only really valuable and unique thing that we have in XSP, so, yeah, I totally understand your concern. Ryan Hoegg wrote: Why not pull the ESQL stuff out and provide a stripped down ESQLTransformer? I haven't