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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 06:19:29 -0800
From: Bruce Martin <martin@jGuru.com>
Subject: Re: XML/Database Applications . . .
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Another effort that I am aware of is DB2XML.

See http://www.informatik.fh-wiesbaden.de/~turau/DB2XML/index.html

Has anybody used this?

Bruce


Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
> 
> Assaf Arkin wrote:
> >
> > We're working on the documentation along with stabalizing the APIs
> > towards the 0.8 release. But there are three examples that illustrate
> > how to use the code, and the API is very simple.
> >
> > For Java - XML all you need is a Marshaller (Java->XML) and Unmarshaller
> > (XML->Java). For Java - SQL we use the ODMG API. There's no much to it,
> > except you need to create an begin a transaction before loading/creating
> > and persistent objects, and commit/abort the transaction before closing
> > the database.
> >
> > We're using XML files to describe the mapping between an object and the
> > tables, hopefully the syntax is self explanatory.
> >
> > arkin
> 
> It may not add much to this, but Cocoon does SQL -> XML thru JDBC right
> now with Donald Ball's SQLProcessor.
> 
> Of course, XML <-> relational data is a very interesting concept and we
> all are going to work more on that.
> 
> Being X-Mozilla-Status: 0009ctive developers the chief architect at
> Exoffice (Ricardo Rocha) I see very close integration of Exoffice stuff
> with Cocoon and this project in the next few months (castor <-> cocoon
> and tyrex <-> turbine in particular).
> 
> Anyway, like always, suggestions and ideas are welcome.
> 
> --
> Stefano Mazzocchi      One must still have chaos in oneself to be
>                           able to give birth to a dancing star.
> <stefano@apache.org>                             Friedrich Nietzsche
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