Re: [dba-dev] About data descriptors

2005-08-18 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germa ny
Hi Santiago, sorry for the delay in answering, this shouldn't have happened, especially since you're new to this list :-\. So, a late "Welcome" from my side :) > Also, the api documents an optional XDataDescriptorFactory interface at > com.sun.star.sdbcx.Table level, and says that it can be used

Re: [dba-dev] Re: Implementing the KDE Address Book driver

2005-08-18 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germ any
Hi Éric >>I see. Okay, in database terminology this means that your database meta >>data should return |false| form othersFooAreVisible methods ... > > I have checked, yes, they do all return sal_False. I suppose they would need > to return sal_True once the concurrency is handled better? Yes.

Re: [dba-dev] Re: Implementing the KDE Address Book driver

2005-08-18 Thread Éric Bischoff
Le Jeudi 18 Août 2005 13:34, Frank Schönheit a écrit : (again, not reproducing your nice tips and my "Ah OK, thank you" answers) > I see. Okay, in database terminology this means that your database meta > data should return |false| form othersFooAreVisible methods ... I have checked, yes, they d

Re: [dba-dev] Re: Implementing the KDE Address Book driver

2005-08-18 Thread Frank Schönheit
Hi Éric, >>qa.openoffice.org has a Java-based API test framework (OOoRunner, if >>that's still the current name), if you want to go this way. > > Yes, I had seen that. Isn't this framework supposed to be written by > different > people as the developers? (QA people) Written: yes. Used: no. I r

Re: [dba-dev] Re: Implementing the KDE Address Book driver

2005-08-18 Thread Éric Bischoff
Hi Frank, (skipping your many remarks where all I have to say is "OK"...) > qa.openoffice.org has a Java-based API test framework (OOoRunner, if > that's still the current name), if you want to go this way. Yes, I had seen that. Isn't this framework supposed to be written by different people as

Re: [dba-dev] Re: Implementing the KDE Address Book driver

2005-08-18 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germ any
Hi Éric, > Speaking about housekeeping: > - half of the drivers put their include files in > connectivity/inc// > - the other half (including kab) put them in > connectivity/source// > What is the correct location? I tend to source/. Usually, the rule is that you put into inc what is

Re: [dba-dev] Re: Implementing the KDE Address Book driver

2005-08-18 Thread Éric Bischoff
Le Jeudi 18 Août 2005 08:52, Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany a écrit : > Well, some drivers don't need a column class at all (as said, higher > layers will emulate missing parts of the SDBCX API in a generic way, if > not provided by the driver, or simply not provide certain functionali

Re: [dba-dev] [Fwd: [Marketing] article: Apache Derby graduates with Sun onboard]

2005-08-18 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germa ny
Hi John, >>It seems like Sun is wanting to use Derby as the DB engine for future >>Java products. I just wanted to bring it up in case of there is any >>change in tack from Sun management/engineer for the embedded java DB >>that OOo has in v2. > > Folks - any comment please? OpenOffice.org's dat

Re: [dba-dev] SQLite/RDF

2005-08-18 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germa ny
Hi Bruce, > There was a lot of backlash against the inclusion of the new Java DB > in OOo 2.0. Why instead of that not SQLite? It's public > domain, it's native code, it's widely supported. AFAIK itwould be > uncontroversial choice for an embedded database. Josh already answered this perfectly