[opencms-dev] OpenCms in the future?

[Alexander Wallace]

I guess i was late to the parade :), this is what i was talking about in my 
previous emails... I appologize... 

I think this is a great idea!

On Thursday 15 September 2005 03:56 am, Tristan Tarrant wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 10:42 +0200, Andreas Haumer wrote:
> > That being said, I'd like to bring up again a subject I have
> > already mentioned on the list several times, but without any
> > reply so far: Caching at the DB access layer! As I tried to
> > explain I think that it might help to improve the performance
> > of OpenCMS quite noticable and reduce the load on the RDBMS at
> > the same time. DB access cache is an important and widely used
> > technique for DB applications in general and especially for web
> > applications. If done right, the advantages usually are considerable!
> 
> Here is how I would work on opencms' db layer:
> 
> - Implement a Hibernate CmsDbDriver. This would bring many enhancements
> to OpenCMS: more database portability, usage of container-provided
> datasource, automatic caching (Hibernate can use many libraries for
> caching: ehcache, oscache, etc), no need to maintain several drivers for
> each database provider
> - At the setup level implement a hibernate page which automatically
> scans the jndi tree for available DataSources, probing the underlying
> database type (the db dialect in hibernate-speak).
> 
> Obviously I need a few rainy days to work on this :)
> 
> Tristan
> 
> 
> 
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