Containment discussion

["Barack, Ron" <ron.barack@sap.com>]

Hi Blaise and Xcalia

 

Two questions...

 

1.  Before we embark on a long discussion of this (or any other) proposal for dealing with containment, I think it's first important to get our use-cases straight.  Which use cases are you aiming at here, and why is the functionality provided by issue 66, and in particular the convenience methods based on it, not the best means to deal with it.  As I understand your use-case, it seems to fit very well indeed to issue-66.

 

2. This propoal does not generate a closed XML document from an arbitrary SDO data graph.  There are other algorithms that do, for instance, Xcalia's TechnicalRoot proposal.  I would think that the main requirement of such an approach to containing is that it can produce XML out of any data graph.  What is the advantage of prefering this approach to Technical Root?

 

Best Regards,

Ron