Re: [Quantlib-dev] Adding a data store

[eric e. <eri...@gm...>]

Hi Keith,

Many thanks for getting in touch.

Some progress has already been made on a design for extending
QuantLibAddin to support serialization, and my first thought is
whether a common framework could serve as a basis both for
serialization (say for distributed computing) and an RDB store.

Here are the links to the previous discussion on serialization:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=6507779&forum_id=4300
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=6539684&forum_id=4300
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=6540997&forum_id=4300
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=6543552&forum_id=4300
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=6700844&forum_id=4300

Please also take a look at the Value Objects feature, contributed to
QuantLibAddin by Plamen Neykov.  Each time a QuantLib object is
constructed in ObjectHandler, a Value Object is associated with it,
the VO comprises a snapshot of the inputs to the constructor of the QL
object, and the idea is that VOs would be used as the basis for, say,
reconstituting the same object on another machine.  VOs can be
interrogated with functions ohPropertyNames() and ohPropertyValues().

I'd be interested to hear your reaction to these initial ideas.

Kind Regards,
Eric

On 3/9/07, Keith Wood <kei...@gm...> wrote:
> Greetings All,
>
> My name is Keith Wood and I currently work as the business development
> manager for a little known consulting company based in Frankfurt,
> Germany. As part of some business development work that I am currently
> doing, I find myself wanting to suggest that someone add the required
> functionality  such as would allow users of QuantLib to
> Fetch/Process/Store data in a relational database.
> I envisage this as being the next step up from QuantLibAddIn where
> rather than providing the hooks to a spreadsheet, you get hooked into a
> data schema. I was thinking something along the lines of a generic
> open-source model that allowed you to "install" a bunch of tables and
> "stuff" on your favorite flavor of relational data provider.
> I find myself in the somewhat unique position of being able to call upon
> the engineering group of Sybase as resources to implement this.
>
> Is there any interest from your side in talking about this further.
> If so, who should I be talking to.
>
> Regards
> Keith Wood
>
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