Re: [Webical-developers] =?iso-8859-1?q?Rethinking_which_CalDAV_Serve?= =?iso-8859-1?q?r_=AB_UP_Computer_Science_Special_Project_2007?=

[Zoran K. <zo...@fu...>]

>     It did not require any configuration? Does that mean it uses an included
>       database? 
> 
> 
> I think so. It comes as a complete package with tomcat and everything 
> included. I can't remember doing anything else than unpacking it and 
> starting it up. Users are configured through the webinterface. 

Hmm, lets have a go with that kind of deploy next time too. As an 
additional download package. Should not be too much work than packaging 
and testing it.

> Yup, that would be the next step. I'm already working a bit to get the 
> initialization process somewhat more transparent. After that I was 
> thinking about using an embedded meta-database like hsqldb or apache 
> derby to store the details about the real database in.  That way we can 
> configure everything from a webinterface and be done with it.

Nice!

> The only thing requiring  manual configuration would be the container 
> specific authorization details if you would want to use that. One issue 
> though would be the database drivers as these would then be required in 
> the classpath of the webapp (although we could give an 
> upload/path_to_jar option and then load it with the pluginclassloader).

Or include a couple of the most widely used drivers by default. Lets not 
spend too much time now making it easier to support every database. If 
we support a meta-db one out of the box, and e.g. mysql/postgres through 
configuration wizard, that would already be great.