The specification is in progress, and I am hesitant to send what we have so far, as it is only the first two parts, which don't actually have much to do with the data storage mechanism. Completion of the specification is expected on September first and I will forward a PDF copy to the mailing list at that time. I have javadoc generated documentation, but this will be of no help without the specification.
The product is very similar to JXTA, from what I hear about that tool. The software is already implemented, but we don't feel comfortable putting it out there completely undocumented, so we are now in the process of going back and describing in detail how we arrived at the product. Rings is proprietary software, but any webdav/slide plugin would be publicly available, open source, and resellable. I would be willing to contribute to the development of this plugin as much as I can with my limited knowledge of webdav. I am certainly available to answer questions about rings 24 hours a day. I am also willing to make minor (and even major) modifications to rings to make this plugin work well, as it is somewhat important to our popularizing this tool outside of academia. I look forward to working with you and your team, Michael. See you in September. -mike On 8/13/06, Michael Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We would be interested if Rings has merit, which I assume it does. We have already written a distributed version of Slide using a JXTAStore that is a secondary store that raises a advertisement when a resource changes and the JXTA Peer Store picks up that advertisement and synchronizes the resource using WebDAV. If your Rings fit in with that we wouldn't mind sharing back as long as we can resell the code with our solutions. Michael Oliver CTO Alarius Systems LLC 6800 E. Lake Mead Blvd, #1096 Las Vegas, NV 89156 Phone:(702)866-9034 Cell:(518)378-6154 Fax:(702)974-0341 -----Original Message----- From: Mike Murray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2006 12:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: New storage implementation for Slide Hello everyone, I am the project manager for a distributed redundant network data storage system called Rings. I was curious about how one would go about constructing a new data storage implementation for slide so that, instead of using an SQL database, it could use this network data storage system that we are developing. The data storage system is similar to a relational database, but there are some key differences. Which classes or interfaces would have to be implemented and how much documentation is available on this? Could anyone estimate the cost (developer hours) of doing this? If someone on this list is interested in actually helping to write the code for this, I can send the documentation for our tool (not yet publicly available) and add a user to CVS. Let me know if you are interested / can help. -mike --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
