Joseph Ottinger wrote:

> For some reason, your question gives me the screaming meemies. The 
> concept is correct - you'd use bean-managed persistence to access and 
> manipulate (and persist) the data, and the latest EJB specs certainly 
> support crossing individual entities... but the idea of adding high 
> volume to "thousands of xml files" with "complex" in their 
> description... I'm not sure you're going to GET high volume, no matter 
> what you do. 

I agree.  XML makes a very good low-end, transaction-free database.  But 
this seems to be have passed "low-end" quite a while ago.  A good DBMS 
is cheap, even Oracle.  He seems to be pushing a technology way beyond 
its abilities, therefore way beyond its usefulness.  The word that came 
to my mind when reading his description was "fragile."  Which means 
trouble, lots of it, and soon.

For those who need high-powered persistence, but don't want to (or 
can't) handle the conversion from object to relational, go to the Oracle 
site and look for TopLink.  It is free and looks very impressive.  (I am 
only just now examining it, but so far I like what I see.)

Tomm




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