Re: [Bodington-developers] hibernate ~ spring ~ common core

[Peter C. <Pet...@me...>]

> From: Selwyn Lloyd
> did the idea of a common schema for an abstraction layer get aired?
>=20
> we figured that a common core gives us more ways to integrate=20
> different=20
> developemnt models, i.e. spring, struts, portlets, web services and=20
> other models can sit side by side if we had a common storage model
> for a core e-learning schema

Intuitively this feels even harder to standardise than common
interchange formats, and feels like standardisation at the wrong level
to boot.  People expect interchange formats to be lossy, and there can
be more than one of them for a given area.  By contrast, multiple
storage models are beggars to integrate.

What would you propose to standardise?  How would you propose to let
developers innovate in the presence of a common core (or is one of the
goals to put a lid on unwanted innovation)?  Would you expect a
table-based or hierarchical storage model?

		- Peter