RE: Why is Hypersonic SQL still being integrated

2001-03-15 Thread Julian Richardson
> I'm willing to take over maintenance/development on > this. Are people interested in keeping it alive > (I know I am)? Well I'm interested in it being kept alive for all the obvious reasons stated on the list - small, free, relatively fast (for small projects anyway by

RE: Why is Hypersonic SQL still being integrated

2001-03-14 Thread Kemp Randy-W18971
Subject: Re: Why is Hypersonic SQL still being integrated Hello Randy, Many people still find it useful to have a simple db preinstalled to play around with and not having to seperately download one and set it up. And considering hsql just adds about 170k, it's not a big issue to keep it

RE: Why is Hypersonic SQL still being integrated

2001-03-14 Thread Kemp Randy-W18971
Schnitzer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 11:11 AM To: Orion-Interest Subject: RE: Why is Hypersonic SQL still being integrated Why not? Really, as a simple test/example database, what shortcoming does it have? Just because nobody is fixing/adding new bugs to the code

RE: Why is Hypersonic SQL still being integrated

2001-03-14 Thread Kemp Randy-W18971
InstantDB (for a Java database), which is actively developed by Enhydra (www.enhydra.org). -Original Message- From: Tim Endres [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 11:47 AM To: Orion-Interest Subject: Re: Why is Hypersonic SQL still being integrated >

RE: Why is Hypersonic SQL still being integrated

2001-03-14 Thread Michael J. Cannon
Just because it's dead, doesn't mean that it doesn't do the job. Keep in mind that for these new tings in J2EE to work (especially EJB), you need some kind of a repository/default container. That doesn't mean you can't use another database as an alternate datasource or connect to one. I believe

RE: Why is Hypersonic SQL still being integrated

2001-03-14 Thread Gavin Thomas Nicol
> It still works doesn't it? I'm willing to take over maintenance/development on this. Are people interested in keeping it alive (I know I am)?

Re: Why is Hypersonic SQL still being integrated

2001-03-14 Thread Tim Endres
> If HypersonicSQL is a dead project, why is it still being shipped with Orion? What is the better alternative?

RE: Why is Hypersonic SQL still being integrated

2001-03-14 Thread Jeff Schnitzer
Why not? Really, as a simple test/example database, what shortcoming does it have? Just because nobody is fixing/adding new bugs to the code at the moment doesn't mean that the current incarnation is not perfectly adequate for its task. I don't think anyone in their right mind would run a produ

Re: Why is Hypersonic SQL still being integrated

2001-03-14 Thread Karl Avedal
Hello Randy, Many people still find it useful to have a simple db preinstalled to play around with and not having to seperately download one and set it up. And considering hsql just adds about 170k, it's not a big issue to keep it there. Regards, Karl Avedal Kemp Randy-W18971 wrote: > If Hyper

Re: Why is Hypersonic SQL still being integrated

2001-03-14 Thread Andy Chapman
It still works doesn't it? Plus it's small, fast, pure Java, portable, supports multi-users, transactions etc. and FREE. Besides it's only shipped with Orion for demonstration purposes. - Original Message - From: "Kemp Randy-W18971" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Orion-Interest" <[EMAIL PROTEC