[ebxmlms-develop] Persistent store

[Alexei Z. <st...@ra...>]

Hi,

I`m follow the Hermes development for about half year and notice
one unpleasant design defect. The persistent store in Hermes designed
in following manner:
  1) Message relations are stored in RDBMS structure.
  2) Messages are stored in file system
Not bad decision.

But under living conditions we are forced to use Oracle to storage
both for message relations and for messages themselves. Oracle offers
BLOB type for such issues.
Hermes source code investigation shows that it`s not easy to correct
product. Too many things are based on files and their names :-(

Could you define Java interface for file storage operations? Anybody
who want to redifine storage manner will create new interface
imlementation only. I think that this will simplify Hermes code and
make Hermes for flexible.

What do you think?

Regards,
Alexei Zolotarev
Software Developer
RDTEX JSC
Zavodskoi proezd 6, Protvino, Moscow region, Russia Federation

P.S. Excuse me for my bad English