RE: [regrep] Introducing the Raining Data TigerLogic XDMS plug-in for freebXML Registry - from Ash Parikh

["Matt MacKenzie" <mattm@adobe.com>]

This is all ancient history now, but earlier versions of the XML Global
registry were backed with XMLG's native XML Database.  At some point at
XMLG we had reports from the field that our customers wanted to leverage
their existing RDBMS investments, so we moved away from our proprietary
XML Database and started supporting RDBMS systems instead.  The XQuery
functionality didn't rank too high at that point with our customers, so
we didn't adapt it to RDBMS backed systems.

One thing I have noticed over the years is that a lot of the cool
features end up being infinitely less important than performance and
scalability.  Since moving to Adobe in 2003, my registry mentality has
been driven by the requirement to make registry calls as fast as remote
filesystem calls, under extreme load.  I've learned a lot, and I am
convinced that a lot of work needs to be done to bring the ebXML
Registry standard into the enterprise space in a serious way.

Take for example something that seems rather innocuous -- a separate
Identifiable object.  A flick of the wrist in your UML tool can add a
JOIN to 80%+ of a registry's calls.

Anyway, I'll stop ranting now.  

-matt

-----Original Message-----
From: Farrukh Najmi [mailto:Farrukh.Najmi@Sun.COM] 
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 11:00 AM
To: Duane Nickull
Cc: regrep@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [regrep] Introducing the Raining Data TigerLogic XDMS
plug-in for freebXML Registry - from Ash Parikh

Duane Nickull wrote:
>Ash:
>
>This is great!   You may wish to note however that it is not the first
>time XQuery has met an ebXML registry implementation.  Back in XML
>Global (circa 2001-2002) we did the same thing.  The engineers
>complained for months on end ;-)  I think Matt spent a lot of time
>architecting the project.
>  
Thanks for setting the historical record straight on this Duane and Matt
:-)

Just to be clear. I think it was not Ash, but I, who said that:

"I am excited about this because it is bringing XQuery to and ebXML 
Registry implementation for the *first time*."

I had never heard anything before about XQuery support in XML global's 
ebXML Registry and should have figured that
those brave pioneers could have ventured into XQuery space earlier :-)

But what is important is that all of us 3 colleagues have given our 
congratulations to Ash and the Raining Data team for their important 
announcement.

Finally, we should as a TC, also recognize the significance of the Eco 
System of commercial products and VARs that is coming of age around our 
specifications.

>D
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Farrukh Najmi [mailto:Farrukh.Najmi@Sun.COM] 
>Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 5:27 PM
>To: regrep@lists.oasis-open.org
>Subject: Re: [regrep] Introducing the Raining Data TigerLogic XDMS
>plug-in for freebXML Registry - from Ash Parikh
>
>Ash Parikh wrote:
>  
>>Hi All,
>>Here's introducing the Raining Data TigerLogic XDMS plug-in for 
>>freebXML Registry:
>>http://ebxmlrr.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/CaseStudies/RainingData 
>>
>>    
><http://ebxmlrr.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/CaseStudies/RainingData>
>  
>> 
>>Many thanks to Farrukh for all his assistance and guidance in 
>>developing the architecture and implementation for the plug-in.
>>
>>    
>Kudos to Ash, Mohammad and the Raining Data team on the development of 
>this plugin for freebXML Registry.
>
>I am excited about this because it is bringing XQuery to and ebXML 
>Registry implementation for the first time.
>As I recall several TC members have expressed interest in supporting 
>XQuery as a query syntax in a future version of our
>standard and this work will allow us to gain valuable experience
towards
>
>that goal.
>
>  


-- 
Regards,
Farrukh