Hi all, to keep you informed I'll post a small roadmap about the specification process of XUpdate. I threw this together in a few minutes so feel free to give your comments and don't hesitate to enhance this list.
Even if we have an existing XUpdate specification and members of the Infozone Group have developed an implementation of this specification in Java the discussions in this list have pointed out that the current spec lacks of very important features. 1. I noticed that a requirements paper is a very good thing. Even if we have a mail archive it is very difficult to remember dicisions made in previous discussions. The requirements paper should reflect the current situation of the mailing list. I think I've written down such a paper until friday, November 24. 2. Based on this requirements paper and the Schmema proposed by Tom Bradford (http://archive.xmldb.org/xupdate-dev/msg00000.html) we can start to rework the XUpdate specification. 3. At the same time we should think about the specification of a general query interface. The current API proposal only knows strings. I think something like Statements and ResultSets (known from ODBC/JDBC) would be a more general solution. This is not really specific to XUpdate but I wanted to mention my ideas. 4. If the proposed specification will be accepted the design of an architecture for a reference implementation could start. (based on Java) 5. Reference implementation in Java. Any thoughts? Lars -- ___________________________________________________________________ Lars Martin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SMB GmbH http://www.smb-tec.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ Post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact adminstrator: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Read archived messages: http://archive.xmldb.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------
