> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason van Zyl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 2:04 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Torque has been separated
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Torque is has now been completely separated. If you look at the
> jakarta-turbine-torque module you will see that the package structure
> has been left the same to cause as few problems as possible.
>
> The package structure should be cleaned up and we should define
> an API for Torque in the same fashion as we are doing for Turbine.
>
> I think the following should be done as well:
>
> 1) Separate the connection pool and make it pluggable
> so that torque can easily be integrated into other application
> that already use PoolMan, or the commons connection pool, or
> the struts connection pool or whatever
>
> 2) XML an configuration
>
> 3) Use the digester to turn the datamodel into an object and
> get rid of the dependency on xerces. It would be nice to
> use the digester with MinML so that the distribution can
> be tiny
Xerces is still needed (not that it cannot be replaces) to _generate_ XML in
sql2xml & jdbc tasks.
fedor.
>
> 4) Get rid of the Log wrapper in all the code and use the log4j
> Category c = Category.getInstance(classname) method so
> that torque can easily be integrated into other apps. Either
> log4j or the logging API will dominate and I'm going to take
> log4j. But as Ceki has noted they are so similar it is very
> easy to change from one to the other
>
> 5) Some analysis on what we actually have would be prudent. Torque
> is somewhat based on the work of Scott Ambler and I would like
> to know where it is the same and where it diverges so we know
> what we're dealing with.
>
> Everything seems to working in the TDK which is still the only place
> I really test torque but if others want to try some stand-alone
> examples that would be great. I'll put the 5 items above in the
> notes file in the jakarta-turbine-torque repository.
>
>
> --
>
> jvz.
>
> Jason van Zyl
>
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