Re: *URGENT* -- Call for support

[Sean Allen <zeroone@worldonline.co.za>]

On 19 Jan 2001 12:44:26 +0100, Falko Braeutigam wrote:
<snip/>
> 
> There is an (of course totalle incomplete) list of to-do's in the CHANGES file.
> The current entries are:
> 
> - complete documentation
> - security
> - distributed ozone nodes: distributed transactions/commit
> - optimistic locking
> - EJB container (EJBoss?)
> - paging server for store back-end
> - re-clustering on commit and cluster load
> - much more...
> 
> Besides I would add the following:
> 
> - graphical admin tool (swing or HTML or both or other)
> - reworking XML support (DOM2)
> - S.O.D.A support (descriptive query "language")
> - improve scalability by using unsynchronized java2 collections + explicite
>   synchronization (core)
> - garbage collector (not sure)
> - equivalent of session beans (not sure)
> 
> Note that JDO is not on this list. Last year I spent a lot of time making an
> ODMG layer for ozone. I never liked ODBMG but people seemed to need an
> "standard" API to rely on. Today, a half year later, I believe that nobody did
> actually even look at this work... :( If anybody here wants to see JDO support
> for ozone, fine, go for it. I will support such an effort. But I will not start
> working on it myself.
> 
> 
> Sean and all, I'm glad to see that after all some guys seem to be really
> interested in ozone. Anyway, honestly I have to say that unfortunately this
> does not change my situation. Just don't expect me to work on ozone as much as
> in the past. I'm simple not able to do this! ozone has to become a real
> community driven project. Don't get me wrong, I would be more than happy to be a
> part of this community and maybe coordinating things or something but not do
> the entire work.


Sure, that's totally understandable, 
we all have lives outside of the monitor, and we are all human.
I don't think anyone here expects you to do all the work yourself, I
didn't honestly realise that there were so few? developers working on
ozone but I think that the response to the email from Neil has shown
that there is a fair amount of interest in Ozone, and I re-iterate my
point about Ozone being a very different solution to JDO (which still
requires a "flat" back end)
I think maybe the biggest problem with the *overall* communitys
acceptance of Ozone is probably due to the fact that is is difficult to
think of storage as a "pure" Java realm, like Ozone is, as I have had
some funny looks when trying to explain it to people. they all seem to
have the same problem grasping the "interface" or lack thereof as in
"where is the JDBC", I for one think the pure object way of doing it
actually makes more sense and plan to begin using it more and more and
more.
thanks for the to-do list, Ill look over it this w/e and try to come up
with some ways of contributing productivly
thanks again for the great project 



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