Ronald Bourret wrote: > > Sorry about that -- nothing is worse than complete silence. > > I'm usually so busy that I only have time for localized bursts of > activity on XML:DB. I've only had time to glance at the latest draft, > but it looked reasonable to me. I'll try to look closely later this > week.
Ok, thanks. > > Actually, both SAX and ODBC were developed in the same way XML:DB was > developed: iterative work on the spec and implementations by a number of > different vendors, until enough experience was gained to label the spec > 1.0. I know SAX was, didn't know ODBC was. It definitely seems a more profitable route for us. > > I don't think the project itself needs to be a delivery vehicle for > drivers. I think it just needs to deliver the spec and any common code, > such as the driver managers in JDBC or ODBC. However, I do think that > drivers need to be written. A spec without implementations to prove it > is not useful. I'm not really thinking we make it a focus to develop drivers for every product but I was thinking it would be good to open things up as a repository for implementations from other people. Basically so if someone wants to develop a driver for say Tamino they could have it hosted here if they wanted. Obviously, vendor supported drivers would be distributed with their product but it will be a while before that will happen. Until then I'd love to see open source Tamino and Excelon drivers that simply layer on top of their existing APIs. The other aspect is language support. My implementation is Java but we need to also support other languages as well. I'd really like to see Python, C++ and some sort of COM/COM+/.Net (Or whatever it's called today) implementation. > Agreed. > > One useful measure of success is getting a handful (three to five) of > independently-written applications to work with a handful > independently-written of drivers. If we can do this, then I'd say we > have a pretty useable spec. I agree. -- Kimbro Staken Chief Technology Officer dbXML Group L.L.C http://www.dbxmlgroup.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact adminstrator: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Read archived messages: http://archive.xmldb.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
