Re: [Exist-development] thoughts about next steps with RDBMS integration

[Adam R. <ad...@ex...>]

On 31 March 2010 15:14, Andrzej Jan Taramina <an...@ch...> wrote:
> Adam said:
>
>> This is quite exciting - I like :-)
>
> I agree...the concept is intriguing.
>
>> And the database configuration could again be defined in conf.xml
>> files in the /sql/system/sql collections. Caching and connection
>> property characteristics could also be placed in conf.xml files in the
>> appropriate sql configuration collection.
>
> I think this is not a feature that will be of general interest to all eXist users, and should not be part of the
> core.....an external extension/plugin would make more sense, so that those that want to integrate with a RDBMS can just
> install the plugin and get the integration functionality.
>
> In that regard, I think the configuration should stay out of the main conf.xml and be put somewhere else, specific to
> the extension module.

Sorry I orginally meant 'collection.xconf' and not 'conf.xml'


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