----- Original Message ----- From: "Gianugo Rabellino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 4:54 AM Subject: Re: [RT] Xindice 2.0
> Kurt Ward wrote: > > On a general POV, I would like to take the opportunity of 2.0 for: > > > > - moving the code into the 'src' directory > > - reformating it to adhere to the Apache conventions > > - correcting some package names (xindice.server.rpc but > > xindice.client.xmldb.xmlrpc) > > > > > > -1 on package names. The xindice.server.rpc package has nothing to do with > > xmldb (well, at least to the user). I don't disagree with renaming the > > package entirely, but remember that the end goal is to have XML:DB, XML-RPC, > > and SOAP as available methods to directly access the server, and not just > > XML:DB so we should either have extensions (as mentioned in a previous > > thread) or some other package naming for XML-RPC and SOAP apart from XML:DB. > > Makes sense. Though I still think that XML:DB should remain the primary > way to access Xindice, we should work together with the xmldb group to > extend the API and, if it doesn't work, make our own additions. But yes, > it would be nice to have alternative ways of access. > Yes, the XML:DB API should be the primary way to access Xindice. XML-RPC (already in the 1.1 tree) and future SOAP messages allow non-Java users to access the server. There are already several applications and users using the XML-RPC message interface for 1.0 (from Perl, PHP, etc.). With the removal of CORBA, this was the agreed upon solution. Kurt
