Hello Adam, I can't be of much help regarding Xindice but I can answer your last question:
Adam Williams wrote: >>>Is the 0.8 release capable of using Xindice as the message store or does >>>one still need HEAD for that? >> >>Actually there should not be a difference to earlier releases. >>Since I don't know how this performs in real live, I would consider this >>driver still not 100% reliable because I still have no wide experience >>with it yet. But as far as I can tell it should run fine. >>I don't know of any bugs. >>here are some TODOs left, and this is probably the interesting part of >>the answer, Xindice still needs to be started extra and is not included in >>the dist-package. And I do don't know if it is running with the latest CVS >>of Xindice. These Xindice guys doing lots of 'moving' work in the core. >>I'd recommend Xindice 1.0 (Birthday) for the time being. > > > Thats what I grabbed. There are no "back-ends" other than file and > Xindice? > > >>Sorry that there ain't no more good news. >>But I've got really bad news as well: >>Right now some stuff in the internal ClassLoader seem to be broken, >>therefore no XMLDBPlugin is loadable at all. I'm investigating... > > > I want to use xmlBlaster primarily via XML-RPC to integrate a rather > large collection of legacy applications written in AcuCOBOL, C, and > Informix 4gl with a new web application written (at least the front end) > in PHP. At this point I don't need to use any protocol other than > XML-RPC but the message volume may be fairly high at times (~250 > messages a second) and nil at other times. > > Is xmlBlaster at a stage where it can be used with something like this? > My primary concern is the backend as the FAQ mentions that the file one > should not be used beyond a few hundred messages. > > Our initial testing will be on Linux, but a nice RS/6000 with a gig of > RAM will probably be used if it goes production. I assume xmlBlaster is > happy on AIX using their JVM? > I made some simple tests (performance and Testsuite) on an AIX with 1 GB Ram with Java 1.3 and it worked fine! Cheers Michele -- Michele Laghi mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +46 8 7492952 / mob. +46 8 4103964 http://www.geocities.com/laghi2000
