[opencms-dev] To the developers team

[Tristan Tarrant]

On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 10:58 +0200, Salvador Santander Gutierrez wrote:

> I heard in the OpenCMS news and this list that for the next version of
> OpenCMS the old pool will be replaced with another pool based on the pool of
> apache foundation.
> Well, my questions are:
> - Why not OpenCms uses the pool of the application server instead of use a
> own pool? Creating a own pool is like "re-invent" the wheel, isn´t it?


I agree. Tomcat 4.x and 5.x provide connection pool at the container
level, and every other application server (free or commercial) does the
same. Is there a specific reason for this ? Since you're already
rewriting these parts, why not go all the way.


> - To get (in a easy way) that OpenCMS work in any database, Why not to
> implement the database access of OpenCMS in a persistence engine like
> hibernate, wich can use its own pool or the application server pool?


I believe this would be a fair bit more complicated, and would require a
fair amout of restructuring.

Tristan
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