[opencms-dev] OpenCms in the future?

[Joe Desbonnet]

I wonder does it make sense to make a clean separation between the VFS
and the rest of OpenCms. If the API between the two is well defined
then the VFS could be worked on and experimented with in parallel with
the higher layers of OpenCms.

So projects like adding support for new databases, use of Hibernate,
JSR 170 stuff etc could be worked on and informally distributed as
alternative implementations of a "vfs.jar" file.

Alkacon can then take the stuff that works and integrate it into the
'official' vfs.jar from time to time.

Any comments?

Joe.


On 9/15/05, Alexander Wallace <aw at avatartechnology.com> wrote:
> 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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