Re: [dhis2] Dhis2 discussion moved to Wiki and to this list

[Tore C. S. <to...@st...>]

Hi all

Just wanted to give you guys some of my thoughts about JDhis 2 (I was
doing an Cand.  Scient. within SA and MZ in 2002 about movement of data
from old systems to DHIS)

I have used MySql, Php and EZ for webdevelopment for two sites recently,
and I was very disapointed by the lack of functionality in MySql, it
currently lacks:

Foreign keys (difficult to enforce data integrity)
Nested SQL quires (advanced SQL quires might be difficult to make)
Data locking (multiple access to same data concurrently can cause
problems)
++ lots more. However, I have heard that this will be available in
upcoming releases.

And just another tip. Try to make an customizable fine grained access
controll on all functionality. In this way you can build an unique web
interface for each user depending upon he's access level. Where he only
can see the functionality HE has ACCESS to. This can be used to avoid
giving an complex and difficult first view of the application.

Cheers and good luck, looks like a really large and interesting project I
think.

Last tip. I have used Eclipse for my own development and I love that
tool.. www.eclipse.org, nicely integrates with lots of servlet runners and
other stuff (such as subversion and cvs).

Tore

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