I note that the poster talks about attaching and example that "someone else
wrote and was slightly modified by me". I'm concerned that we don't know who
owns this example. Lets talk separately and see if we can find out from Ed
Merks where he got this from. Also based on Ed Slatterys post we may need to
construct our own to take into account the spec compliance offered by the
different implementations.

Regards

Simon

On 5/3/06, kelvin goodson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

There's a pair of files called "Primer.xsd" and "PrimerSample.xml" which I
have used in the past which come from Eclipse EMF and
is as comprehensive in its coverage of schema as I have ever needed.  I'm
not sure how we stand on being able to distribute these as part of the
test
suite in Tuscany.  A quick google shows the files available from the
article


http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/article.php?id=3666&group=eclipse.tools.emf
as attachments

http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/attachment.php?group=eclipse.tools.emf&id=3666&attachment=2
and

http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/attachment.php?group=eclipse.tools.emf&id=3666&attachment=3

With regards to sharing change histories,  I imagine the primary use case
for change histories is when you give a give a modified graph back to the
"same" DAS for writing back to the original source. So I in terms of cross
language interoperability I would extrapolate that the scenario we would
be
supporting would be that of fairly tightly coupled DAS implementations,
all
accessing the same source.  I may be wrong, but It doesn't sound like a
frequently encountered scenario, so whilst it sounds like goodness, it
wouldn't be at the top of my priority list.

I don't have a strong feeling yet for the shape of tests we should do, but
perhaps we could talk about which interop tests we want to do on the IRC
channel in the next regular slot (I'm assuming that's Monday May 8th, at:
15:30 GMT, 16:30 BST, 08:30am PST, 11:30am EDT, 21:00 Bangalore)

Cheers, kelvin.

On 5/2/06, Simon Laws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I spent a little time getting familiar with PHP/SDO and had some more
> thoughts about cross language interop testing. For SDO the most basic
test
> is to read and write an XML file from PHP/JAVA/C++ and compare the
> results.
> We could develop this to test other functions such as creating, updating
> and
> deleting content and again comparing the content from the different
> implementations. Assuming we start with the same input we would expect
the
> outputs to be compatible.
>
> Is there an XML file somewhere that contains the full set of supported
> types
> and type constructs?
>
> Where relational DASs are implemented Similar tests could be carried out
> with relational data ensuring that type conversions are performed
> accurately
> and consistently across implementations by reading out of a database and
> printing out the data for comparison or by inserting back into a
database
> for comparison.
>
> We could also look at how consistently the implementations convert from
> one
> DAS type to another but I guess this is not strictly an interoperability
> issue.
>
> Is there an intention that SDO change histories will be shared? If so
this
> is something else that you could expect to be transferred across
language
> boundaries and hence we should think about how to test this.
>
> Once the work is done to have C++ support Axis2 we should do some SCA
> interop testing also. In the near term we could do some basic testing
> based
> on SDO/axiom conversions if it's thought that to be worth it.
>
> I'm happy to spend time setting up tests if we can agree which ones are
> required.
>
> Thoughts
>
> Regards
>
> Simon
>
>


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Best Regards
Kelvin Goodson


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