Hi Éric, >>My favourite sexy idea ATM is to have a generic driver, which is >>parametrized with a few obejcts doing the actual implementation. > > Ah. That's a violent change!
:) > ... > In particular, there are drivers that just pass on SQL requests to > connectors, > and others that need reproduce the hard job of decoding the SQL requests. I > thought that such drivers would be too different to derive from a simple > class. Well, this isn't thought to an end, and there lie significant problems ahead, probably. But everytime some Sun-external contributor such as you comes with a new database driver, which I review, I have the felling I saw 80% of the issues in the somewhere else before - because it has been copied from another driver. That's not the error of the contributor, but of a) the drivers they copied from :) and b) the fact that there's not much infrastructure for sharing larger parts of the code. > When I think in terms of OOP, you think in terms of UNO programming ;-). > Funny. I didn't say "UNO" at all - I just put a small innocent "X" in front of a concept/name which is intendend to be an interface class. Yes, by accident this conforms to UNO naming conventions, but it's still OOP :) > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/BetterDatabaseDrivers > > I realize this is way too much centered on my own views. Please consider this > only as a first draft. Everyone, feel free to add much, much more ideas and > to refine the existing ones. I will put some own ideas there, too. Thanks for starting it! To the other people reading here which already struggled with writing a driver themself: you're invited to participate, and put every item where you thought "damn, why do I have to do it this stupid way?!" into the Wiki :) Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/staroffice - - OpenOffice.org Database http://dba.openoffice.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
