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Subject: Re: OpenDocument format for databases


Indeed the presence of db-java-classpath in the standard is problematic.

Michael, can you add this item to the "Proposals under discussion" in the wiki?

On Tuesday 24 June 2008, you wrote:
> 
> Hello, again.
> As you can see below I am referring to (very old) Frank's post. In 2005 we've 
> worked on adding connection-data related elements to ODF 1.2 and the effect 
> was very positive to me.
> At the time I criticized inclusion of java-dependent elements in the database 
> parts of the ODF specs, that is now at the 1.2 draft 7 stage.
> 
> Please take a look:
> 
> Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany said the following, On 2005-06-29 
> 16:30:
> > For instance, the java-driver-class is a driver-setting (which to me
> > also seemed to be a misunderstanding in [1]): The component which serves
> > “jdbc:” URLs (basically translating JDBC interfaces to OOo's API), uses
> > this setting to determine the Java class to load. For all other URI
> > schemes, and thus all other external database types, the attribute is
> > completely useless. Thus, it probably should have been in a
> > <driver-settings> or <connection-data> tag, or something like this ....
> 
> Unfortunately in the draft there is mention of the java classpath (it was not 
> there in draft 5).
> 
> I'd like to also point out that there are many kinds of drivers with different 
> APIs implemented in C, C++, Python, Ruby... and different sets of properties. 
> If we wanted to include all of them, we'd get OOXML-like parts of ODF, 
> designed to be usable for single vendor.
> 
> My proposal is still to remove db-java-classpath from the standard.
> This element is implementation specific. Just like kde-driver or qt-driver - 
> both (my examples) may have specific attributes - but we do not propose them 
> for the standard.
> 
> On the other hand, there is also no mention of ODBC driver settings, so I 
> cannot see symmetry with JDBC. If we claim ODBC can be added by the 
> implementors of ODF as extension, I believe the same can be said for JDBC.
> 
> I am afraid otherwise there will be no single strong point against adding 
> references to another implementation/vendor specific API like MS ADO drivers.
> 
> Long ago I have mentioned the issue here
> http://www.kexi-project.org/wiki/wikiview/index.php%40OpenDocumentForDatabases.html
> 
> -- 
> regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek
>   Sponsored by OpenOffice Polska (http://www.openoffice.com.pl/en) to work on
>   Kexi & KOffice (http://www.kexi.pl/en, http://www.koffice.org/kexi)
>   KDE Libraries for MS Windows (http://windows.kde.org)
> 
> 



-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).


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