Re: [Relfs-devel] JDBFS and RelFS

[Vincenzo a. N. N. <vin...@ya...>]

On Friday 13 August 2004 08:09, co...@li... wrote:
> this project came to my mind as we are working on pretty the same
> idea. Well, not completly. So I thought that our projects could stay
> in contact and get some ideas from each other and help out a little
> bit.
>
> JDBFS will be a java based (100% java) indexing system with an
> embeddable database to store rich metainformation from mp3, ogg,
> movies, pdfs, images and other content storing filetypes.
> We have working plugins (from GPL projects) for mp3 and ogg. PDF is
> on the hook right now.

Where is your project? If it is the one at sun site, is it free 
software? I can't access the page (I even registered).

However, if you have a plugin interface and have chosen a data model, I 
don't see reasons why in principle I couldn't use the same plugin 
format and the same data model - how are you storing data? Is your 
embedded DB a relational database? In this case, maybe we both could 
abstract database access from plugins enough to have your plugins work 
in relfs and maybe the countrary (but would you like plugins written in 
languages other than java?).

Do you have documentation about your data model and plugin architecture?

Bye

Vincenzo