RE: [office-comment] Java / JDBC (ODF all versions)

["Alex Brown" <alexb@griffinbrown.co.uk>]

Rick hi

> I don't know whether generalization is necessarily the right answer.
> The
> parameters that apply to a connection to JDBC cannot just be used to
> switch to ODBC or whatever, for the obvious reason that you have to
> re-write the database address and other details.

Right - but one could have (say) a set of generic named properties -
different connection technologies would need to have different sets of
name/value pairs. And of course, that's the kind of thing a Schematron
schema would be good at testing :-)

- Alex.