--- Tom Bradford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday, February 7, 2002, at 02:09 PM, Kimbro > Staken wrote: > > The problem comes if there is no root collection. > For instance I have > > an Oracle 9i impl where the collection hierarchy > is flat. I had to > > synthesize a root collection in order to have a > starting point to > > create collections. > > This isn't intuitive when the database doesn't > support a hierarchy of > > collections. I actually agree with Dare on this, > Services tied to > > collections is too limiting. We need a cleaner > distinction of database > > level services. I don't think all services should > be database level, > > but the concept needs to exist. > > My only argument is that Collection-level services > are needed, and > shouldn't be eliminated. I have no problem with > adding Database level > services.
:) This can easily be supported by doing what I did with SiXDML. Just add getService(String, String) to the Database class. ===== LAWS OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING, VIII Any non-trivial program contains at least one bug. http://www.25hoursaday.com Carnage4Life (slashdot/advogato/kuro5hin) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact administrator: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Read archived messages: http://archive.xmldb.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
