[opencms-dev] Database connection pooling

[Anil K Patel]

> 1. It seems that OpenCMS uses it's own database connection pool. Why
> don't
> rely to datasource connection pools provided by any of production
> application servers?

I also have this question, May be this thing was coded quite sometime
back, at that time datasource thing was not there/or popular



> 3. Why using of own classes to convert XML to HTML is better than
> using of
> XSLT technique? 

OpenCMS templating is lot easier to do.




--- Vadim Lotarev <vlotarev at evelopers.com> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I just review OpenCMS to investigate whether it is possible to use it
> in my
> projects. There are some questions:
> 
> 1. It seems that OpenCMS uses it's own database connection pool. Why
> don't
> rely to datasource connection pools provided by any of production
> application servers?
> 
> 2. As you use SQL queries only why do you need specific settings for
> different databases (except specific JDBC driver class and connection
> string, of course)? BTW, why don't you use Datasource interfaces
> instead of
> DriverManager-related methods?
> 
> 3. Why using of own classes to convert XML to HTML is better than
> using of
> XSLT technique? In what way do you support WAP (it is proclaimed in
> the
> features but I am not able to find it in sources). Is it necessary to
> extend
> sources to support any other convertations?
> 
> 4. What about OpenCMS performance? I am not able to find any
> information
> concerning this.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Vadim Lotarev
> 
> 


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Regards
Anil K Patel
Aditisoft Inc
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