I am attempting to write a dictionary loader for ConceptMapper that creates its dictionary entries from database queries and loads them directly into memory, rather than creating an XML file that is loaded as a resource in the pear. My primary motivation for this is if the database changes we can force an on-demand update of the dictionaries, thus getting the newest entries for the lookup. It also makes deployment of the application in different environments easier since the dictionaries would not have to be pre-built, but would be created when the application is deployed to the application server.
I'm looking at the interface DictionaryResource as a starting point for doing this. If anyone has been down this path or has some suggestions please let me know. Thanks, Larry Kline
