Kurt, Don't worry about the stand-alone server. It isn't really :-). All we are going to do is to provide a way to "link" in the Xindice code into anyones application without having to have any network traffic. It will be an alternate means of access. Currently, there are two ways to access data. One is via CORBA, the other is through RPC. Using the CORBA method you can start Xindice up as a seperate process or as part of your own application. However, it still uses CORBA to access the data. This means that is has to marshall and unmarshall to the server and then the same on the way back. Even if it is running inside your JVM. What the "embedded" project is going to do is to provide an implementation of the XML:DB API. The API will be the same as the CORBA version and I think the RPC version. The only difference will be that it will directly access the data without any middleware. So, it will just be a different import to use the networked vs the non-networked version.
Does anyone disagree or see a problem here? We are just about ready to start... thanks, Mark Kurt Ward wrote: > I'm going to disappear for a couple of weeks while I move across the > country. > I am looking forward to continuing the development of the server, but I'm > not sure > what is/needs/should/could/have-to be worked on at this point. Most of the > basic > XML-RPC API is in CVS along with the unit tests. Not sure if anyone has > looked > at it yet, but it seems to be getting there. Some of the changes I have > made may require > a few modifications to James Bates XML:DB code in the CVS scratchpad (James, > if you are still around it would be with GetDocumentCount() and > GetCollectionCount() due to XML-RPC types). I'm also a little confused with > all of the messages about working on a stand-alone server. Don't get me > wrong, I think this a GREAT idea, but to me it leaves the other pieces > hanging a bit. Is the server to become stand-alone with separate access > layers? Or is that later down the road than a 1.1 release? > Kimbro/Tom/James: Let me know what you would like me to spend time on once > I get up and running, I'll be itching to get at the keyboard. > > Kurt -- Mark J Stang Software Architect Cybershop Systems
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