Re: [Objectbridge-developers] AW: [objectbridge - Open Discussion] Bug or feature?

[Ivan T. <to...@cr...>]

On Mon, 2001-08-27 at 15:05, Mahler Thomas wrote: 
> Now my question to everyone working with OJB:
> What do you prefer?
> 1. Allow remote calls that access the metadata repository, cache, etc.? This
> would require to include all these calls being added to the Request protocol
> (and to implement them in the RequestHandler)
> 2. Expose only the PersistenceBroker API as suggested by implementation.
> This will keep the design clear. But it will be impossible to make explicit
> changes to the metadata etc.
> 
> Personally I vote for option two. But I'd like to hear your suggestions, as
> I don't know if you are already building applications that rely on changes
> to metadata etc.
> 

I too vote for option two.  Franky, I can't quite imagine what kind of
application would need the flexibility of option one, except perhaps a
development environment, which knows about and supports OJB. And even in
this case it has alternatives.

Ivan