On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Emmanuel Lecharny <elecha...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 6/4/10 12:01 AM, Stefan Seelmann wrote: >> >> Emmanuel Lecharny wrote: >> >>> >>> On 6/3/10 10:51 PM, Stefan Seelmann wrote: >> >> 3. The JDBM partition is a concrete implementation of the XDBM >> partition. It contains a Store implementation because this is forced by >> XDBM. >> > > Here, I disagree. JDBM is a store, not a partition. XDBM = XXX-Data Base > Manager, nothing connected to the idea of Partition. > We could probably say that XDBM and Store is the same concept. the problem is here that, a Partition though backed by a store(a.k.a a DB) is still aware of LDAP related details like OperationContext. Store *is* the real DB manager. Moreover a Store's implementation is specific to a partition.
P.S: I think in future we can really separate the Store from Partition completely but requires a lot more effort in generalizing the initialization across partition implementations Kiran Ayyagari