Re: ODMG 2.0 ???

[Falko Braeutigam <falko@softwarebuero.de>]

Ronald L. Chichester wrote:
> 
> ODMG compliance is only desirable if you want widespread use of Ozone.
> Compliance to standards is, oftentime, a prerequisite to acceptance for
> commercial applications.  Adherence to standards makes porting one
> application to another application easier and enables the emergence of
> third-party applications that satisfy niche markets that use disparate
> object databases (Objectivity, GemStone, etc.) which can add to the
> "snowball effect" and generate even more use of a software program.
> 
> Like anything else, the issue of standards is a tradeoff.  One of the great
> things about open source software is it can lessen the need for adherence
> to standards because one has the ability to satisfy that crucial niche
> feature that can make or break an application.  Ulitmately, however, if you
> want Ozone to be accepted by industry, you are going to have to make some
> effort to accommodate, at least partially, the ODMG standards.  If, for no
> other reason, for "newbies" to understand and quickly utilize Ozone.

This is exactly what I think about it -- and it's not our ultimate goal to
make ozone accepted by industry. We want to build a really productive tool
which fits the needs of our Java projects. However, ozone is now an OS
projects and other projects (ExoGen, maybe EJBoss and OpenPortal) are
depending on it and maybe they will ask for ODMG too.

Anyway, does anybody have or does anybody know a place to get a computer
readable ODMG 2.0 spec from? To implement the ODMG collections classes and
the database API in ozone seems to be no problem. But the structure
definition and query languages are a bit of the path of ozone. So we have to
check this with the actual spec. Anybody?


Falko
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