On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 04:01:11PM -0500, Stephanie Piet wrote: > Another thing is that I'm working with XMLdbGUI and trying to use > Xindice on this, but I'd rather have it so that it's not poping up any > background DOS windows throwing errors out. I'd just like a way to embed > Xindice into the XMLdbGUI program, if possible. At work we are trying > to find and develop on Java based XML database interface to do basic > operations like update, select...etc. I wonder if using just eXist XML > database might work instead. I just might try that in the meantime.
Up front: I'm probably as new to this as you are. If not, I'm newer :) >From what I've gathered, from the released versions, only eXist will be readily embeddable. Xindice from CVS should be embeddable, but the latest mail archive message I could find on the topic labelled it unstable. OTOH, eXist does not do updates of document content. If you want to update a node you have to fetch the entire document, change it locally, then replace the existing document in the database. This opens up opportunities for race conditions (I don't think eXist does document-level locking). Emile
