when I did olap for some other software, we used libraries as you suggest. it has been a decade or so since I did anything like this so I will have go over the code i wrote in another language to see exactly what I did :) My "off the top response" would be to put it the datafile folder since it has to do with data warehousing or interfacing to data.
Jacopo Cappellato sent the following on 7/16/2008 5:45 AM: > Hi all, > > I am reviewing the stuff I did some time ago in the "bi" component > (Business Intelligence, in specialpurpose) and I would like to start to > clean up/enhance a few that prototype. > > As a first step I would like to separate the lower level services (like > the generic ones that are used to translate operational keys into olap > keys) for BI from the ones related to specific applications: all the > artifacts that are application specific (entities, services and ecas) > will be moved to the proper component. > > The doubt I have is this: since the higher level component will use the > lower level services defined in the specialpurpose/bi component, this > will create a bad dependency from applications to specialpurpose... > > What is the best way to fix this? Move part of the bi services into the > framework? move the bi component into the framework? or for now, since > the code there is since a prototype, keep everything into bi (as is now) > and postpone this re-factoring? > > Thanks, > > Jacopo > > > > > > >