Re: [Jdbm-general] JDBM 0.10 released

[Alex B. <boi...@in...>]

Etienne Posthumus wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Alex Boisvert wrote:
>   > Needing a little less sleep tonight, I finally got around to doing a new
>   > release.  It was long overdue, since we've had a pending bug for more
>   > than 4 months.  Here's the change log:
> 
> Great stuff, thanks Alex.
> 
> And thanks to Cees for starting the project. I haven't posted before, I am
> using jdbm with great joy in some projects, notably a management system for
> an Iconographic classification system and as a storage layer for a
> publishing system.
> 

I'm glad to hear that other people are finding it useful.  Personally,
since I've discovered JDBM, it has become part of my Swiss Army toolkit;
I use it whenever I can to get the job done.

The next feature I'd like to add is B+Tree support.  This would open the
door for sorted collections.   

... And speaking of collections, I'd like to know whether people would
prefer to have an implementation of the Java collections (List, Map,
Set, ...) or JDBM-specific interfaces for persistent collections, which
would probably be a subset of the Java collections and expose
persistence exceptions.

Of course, we could have both (why spoil all the fun?) and "wrap" the
JDBM-specific API with Java collections API.  I'm just wondering if it's
important for people.

cheers,
alex