Oracle SDO 3.0 Issue Rankings

["Radu Preotiuc-Pietro" <radu.preotiuc-pietro@oracle.com>]

Hello everyone,

Blaise and I and our teams worked out the list of priorities for Oracle and we are mostly in agreement with what has been discussed so far. This is our list of priorities:


High Priority Items

5.  Improved XML/XSD Support

7.  Organization of SDO Type System and Helpers
a)  Define standard ways to create HelperContexts.  (We would like to see this be compatible with OSGi)

3.   Features related to the Data Access Services (DAS) Specification 
In particular the ChangeSummary


Medium Priority Items

1. Enhancements to Static SDOs:
a) Their use as a source of SDO Metadata.
c) Defining name mangling and package to namespace mappings (For Java we propose using JAXB name mangling rules).
d) Consolidation with data objects from standard frameworks, e.g. JAX-B. 

2. Service Level Programming API

4. SDO XML Path Support 

6. Cleaning up/ Enhancing the SDO API


Low Priority Items

7. Organization of SDO Type System and Helpers 
b) Define the organization and relationship between HelperContexts.
c) Define the relationship of HelperContexts to other system entities, such as class loaders. 
d) Clarify if Type and Property objects should be DataObjects.

8. Enhancements to SDO Metadata 


Not Required

1. Enhancements to Static SDOs:
    b)  Defining an API for their generation 

9. Interoperability with .Net

11. Notification Support

12. Programming Language Support


Completed

10. Relaxing Containment Requirements

Thanks,
Radu