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[STELLATION] mysql+innoDB [message #1229] Fri, 05 July 2002 07:03 Go to next message
Xavier Méhaut is currently offline Xavier MéhautFriend
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Hello,
I've just read the content of the new subproject Stellation...It is very
interesting... Unlikely it is working only on UNIX platforms. I would
suggest to use MySQL instead of postgresSQL by adding to MySQL the INNODB
transactionnal feature...
Regards
Xavier
Re: [STELLATION] mysql+innoDB [message #1318 is a reply to message #1229] Fri, 05 July 2002 16:05 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Mark C. Chu-Carroll is currently offline Mark C. Chu-CarrollFriend
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On Fri, 05 Jul 2002 03:03:03 -0400, xme wrote:

> Hello,
> I've just read the content of the new subproject Stellation...It is very
> interesting... Unlikely it is working only on UNIX platforms. I would
> suggest to use MySQL instead of postgresSQL by adding to MySQL the
> INNODB transactionnal feature...

At the time I started the Stellation project, the transaction support
in MySQL simply wasn't up to what we needed. Based on your message, I
went and took a look at the latest material from InnoDB. It looks like
InnoDB is likely to provide sufficient support for Stellation.

At the moment, our group at IBM is three people, and to be honest, we're
already very over-worked. We would *love* to see someone add InnoDB
support to Stellation. It would likely dramatically improve the
performance of our system. (We're currently significantly slowed down
by some bugs in PostgreSQL JDBC.)

We've got the database specific code pretty tightly encapsulated
in our source. If someone is interested in working on it,
we'll be glad to help show you exactly where all of the database
specific stuff is, and what you'd need to do to add support for a new
database.

It's probably a weeks hacking for someone who's familiar with MySQL. The
biggest piece of work is probably adding documentation for MySQL to the
manuals.

-Mark

--
Mark Craig Chu-Carroll, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
*** The Stellation project: Advanced SCM for Collaboration
*** http://www.eclipse.org/stellation
*** Work Email: mcc@watson.ibm.com ------- Personal Email: markcc@bestweb.net
Re: [STELLATION] mysql+innoDB [message #2140 is a reply to message #1318] Fri, 05 July 2002 18:43 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: jrimmer.nospam.irth.net

I, and perhaps others, may be interested in undertaking this task as I
also see the dependence/reliance on Postgress to be a negative. Would
you mind posting the details for implementing support of a new database
in this forum? It would serve as a type of documentation as well as
saving you the hassle of having to repeat yourself.
I'm also entertaining the idea of porting to other databases such as
the embedded version of McKoi, http://www.mckoi.com, which would create
a unified single process (no dependence on other processes) SCM system.

Mark C. Chu-Carroll wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Jul 2002 03:03:03 -0400, xme wrote:
>
>
>>Hello,
>>I've just read the content of the new subproject Stellation...It is very
>>interesting... Unlikely it is working only on UNIX platforms. I would
>>suggest to use MySQL instead of postgresSQL by adding to MySQL the
>>INNODB transactionnal feature...
>
>
> At the time I started the Stellation project, the transaction support
> in MySQL simply wasn't up to what we needed. Based on your message, I
> went and took a look at the latest material from InnoDB. It looks like
> InnoDB is likely to provide sufficient support for Stellation.
>
> At the moment, our group at IBM is three people, and to be honest, we're
> already very over-worked. We would *love* to see someone add InnoDB
> support to Stellation. It would likely dramatically improve the
> performance of our system. (We're currently significantly slowed down
> by some bugs in PostgreSQL JDBC.)
>
> We've got the database specific code pretty tightly encapsulated
> in our source. If someone is interested in working on it,
> we'll be glad to help show you exactly where all of the database
> specific stuff is, and what you'd need to do to add support for a new
> database.
>
> It's probably a weeks hacking for someone who's familiar with MySQL. The
> biggest piece of work is probably adding documentation for MySQL to the
> manuals.
>
> -Mark
>

--
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jrimmer_at_irth.net
Re: [STELLATION] mysql+innoDB [message #2166 is a reply to message #1229] Fri, 05 July 2002 20:52 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Martin Möbius is currently offline Martin MöbiusFriend
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Postgres is also runnable on top of cygwin on windows.
But of course not so easy to setup like mySQL.

martin
Re: [STELLATION] mysql+innoDB [message #2193 is a reply to message #1318] Fri, 05 July 2002 23:05 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Originally posted by: bob.objfac.com

Is there some issue with adding a standard MySQL extension to Stellation? I
assuming you're using CPL. The MySQL most people use is GPL. GPL and CPL
don't mix.

Bob

"Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <markcc@bestweb.net> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 05 Jul 2002 03:03:03 -0400, xme wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > I've just read the content of the new subproject Stellation...It is very
> > interesting... Unlikely it is working only on UNIX platforms. I would
> > suggest to use MySQL instead of postgresSQL by adding to MySQL the
> > INNODB transactionnal feature...
>
> At the time I started the Stellation project, the transaction support
> in MySQL simply wasn't up to what we needed. Based on your message, I
> went and took a look at the latest material from InnoDB. It looks like
> InnoDB is likely to provide sufficient support for Stellation.
>
> At the moment, our group at IBM is three people, and to be honest, we're
> already very over-worked. We would *love* to see someone add InnoDB
> support to Stellation. It would likely dramatically improve the
> performance of our system. (We're currently significantly slowed down
> by some bugs in PostgreSQL JDBC.)
>
> We've got the database specific code pretty tightly encapsulated
> in our source. If someone is interested in working on it,
> we'll be glad to help show you exactly where all of the database
> specific stuff is, and what you'd need to do to add support for a new
> database.
>
> It's probably a weeks hacking for someone who's familiar with MySQL. The
> biggest piece of work is probably adding documentation for MySQL to the
> manuals.
>
> -Mark
>
> --
> Mark Craig Chu-Carroll, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
> *** The Stellation project: Advanced SCM for Collaboration
> *** http://www.eclipse.org/stellation
> *** Work Email: mcc@watson.ibm.com ------- Personal Email:
markcc@bestweb.net
Re: [STELLATION] mysql+innoDB [message #2219 is a reply to message #2193] Fri, 05 July 2002 23:34 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Mark C. Chu-Carroll is currently offline Mark C. Chu-CarrollFriend
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On Fri, 05 Jul 2002 19:05:25 -0400, Bob Foster wrote:

> Is there some issue with adding a standard MySQL extension to
> Stellation? I assuming you're using CPL. The MySQL most people use is
> GPL. GPL and CPL don't mix.

Let me prefix with: I'm not a lawyer. Before we accepted a MySQL component
into our repository, we'd need to do a quick check with the IBM legal folks.

But as I understand it: MySQL's JDBC library is LGPL. Same with
PostgreSQL's JDBC. Given the nature of how JDBC libraries are used by
Java, the IBM legal folk approved the use of PostgreSQL. So I don't
anticipate a problem. But I will need to check.

-Mark


--
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*** The Stellation project: Advanced SCM for Collaboration
*** http://www.eclipse.org/stellation
*** Work Email: mcc@watson.ibm.com ------- Personal Email: markcc@bestweb.net
Re: [STELLATION] mysql+innoDB [message #2249 is a reply to message #2140] Fri, 05 July 2002 23:56 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Mark C. Chu-Carroll is currently offline Mark C. Chu-CarrollFriend
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On Fri, 05 Jul 2002 14:43:09 -0400, Jason Rimmer wrote:

> I, and perhaps others, may be interested in undertaking this task as I
> also see the dependence/reliance on Postgress to be a negative. Would
> you mind posting the details for implementing support of a new database
> in this forum? It would serve as a type of documentation as well as
> saving you the hassle of having to repeat yourself.

Here's the summary. If you want to discuss it,
I think the Stellation mailing list is likely a better place.

There are two places that need to be updated: the repository
core, and the workspace. (The workspace, for us, covers the
command-line tools to support a workspace.)

The repository core is implemented in org.eclipse.stellation.repos, and
org.eclipse.stellation.repos.artifacts. For the repository core, the
bulk of database dependent code is encapsulated in what we call an
AccessPoint. An access point is the system that provides all access to
the database, generates handles for accessing a repository, and manages
authentication. There's a generic implementation of an AccessPoint
called DBAccessPoint, which parameterizes most of the DB dependent code.
Then there are database specific subclasses of DBAccessPoint. We have
two versions: PostgresAccessPoint, and DB2AccessPoint. If you look at
DBAccessPoint and its two concrete implementations, you should be able
to figure out how to write a MySQL variant.

The other place in the repository core is in what we call Artifact
Agents. This is one of the more unusual pieces of Stellation. Instead
of hardwiring particular kinds of artifacts into the repository, we
have a generic extension point called an Agent that provides everything needed to
support a particular kind of repository artifact. The SQL code for
retrieving and storing a particular kind of artifact is in the artifact
agent. We try to parameterize it as much as possible through the access
points. You'll need to look at the ArtifactAgent types, and see if they
need any SQL customization for MySQL. The SQL is very obvious in the
files, and it should be easy to read and parameterize if necessary.

Finally, you'll need to modify the server, command-line, and
GUI, to allow them to determine what kind of access point they
should use.

For the command-line, that's the class
org.eclipse.stellation.workspace.Location. It determines the kind
of access point to create based on the prefix of its location
parameter.

For the server, it's in the parameter processing code in
org.eclipse.stellation.repos.messaging.server.Server.Again, it's
a simple conditional on the prefix of the location parameter.

For the UI, I'm afraid I need to defer to my coworker Jim Wright,
who can tell you where in the UI it handles AccessPoint creation.
So far, I've spent all of my time working on the repository side,
so I'm just not sufficiently familiar with how Jim handles this in
the UI. I expect it's very similar, except that Jim build some
GUI support for creatin


> I'm also entertaining the idea of porting to other databases such as
> the embedded version of McKoi, http://www.mckoi.com, which would create
> a unified single process (no dependence on other processes) SCM.

I don't think that we can legally do that. McKoi is GPL, and Stellation
is CPL. Linking them together into a single running process will be a
violation of the GPL.

-Mark



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*** The Stellation project: Advanced SCM for Collaboration
*** http://www.eclipse.org/stellation
*** Work Email: mcc@watson.ibm.com ------- Personal Email: markcc@bestweb.net
Re: [STELLATION] mysql+innoDB [message #21820 is a reply to message #2249] Fri, 06 September 2002 21:56 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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"Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <markcc@bestweb.net> wrote in news:ag5a54$59k$1
@rogue.oti.com:

>
> I don't think that we can legally do that. McKoi is GPL, and Stellation
> is CPL. Linking them together into a single running process will be a
> violation of the GPL.
>

Sorry, to jump in that late. I
Re: [STELLATION] mysql+innoDB [message #21863 is a reply to message #2219] Fri, 06 September 2002 21:57 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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"Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <markcc@bestweb.net> wrote in news:ag58qf$502$1
@rogue.oti.com:

> But as I understand it: MySQL's JDBC library is LGPL. Same with
> PostgreSQL's JDBC. Given the nature of how JDBC libraries are used by
> Java, the IBM legal folk approved the use of PostgreSQL. So I don't
> anticipate a problem. But I will need to check.

If there are problems involved in the licensing, I guess, I gave the same
answer before leave the stuff causing problems out, add a text file on how
to integrate the stuff yourself and provide some kind of build file.
Re: [STELLATION] mysql+innoDB [message #21954 is a reply to message #1229] Sat, 07 September 2002 13:28 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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On Fri, 05 Jul 2002 04:03:03 -0300, xme wrote:

> Hello,
> I've just read the content of the new subproject Stellation...It is very
> interesting... Unlikely it is working only on UNIX platforms. I would
> suggest to use MySQL instead of postgresSQL by adding to MySQL the INNODB
> transactionnal feature...
> Regards
> Xavier

For your info:

Oracle and Firebird/Interbase support was added to Stellation.

Browse the mailing lists for more on this.

Regards,

Rodolfo
Re: [STELLATION] mysql+innoDB [message #23490 is a reply to message #21820] Thu, 12 September 2002 09:45 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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On Fri, 06 Sep 2002 21:56:28 +0000, Werner Punz wrote:

> "Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <markcc@bestweb.net> wrote in news:ag5a54$59k$1
> @rogue.oti.com:
>
>
>> I don't think that we can legally do that. McKoi is GPL, and Stellation
>> is CPL. Linking them together into a single running process will be a
>> violation of the GPL.
>>
>>
> Sorry, to jump in that late. IŽm in the long term process of removing
> CVS
> :-), and Stellation might develop into something neat. Anyway back to
> :the
> GPL problem. You might consider adding the support but leaving the GPL
> part out, but providing a working make file and instructions. Then you
> can leave it up to the user on how to handle the licensing issue. Anyway
> I didnŽt know that Stellation already was usable, I will have a look at
> it seriously.

That's not sufficient. I'm not a lawyer, so I don't fully understand
the hows or whys. But if we distribute code that relies on being linked
specifically to something GPL, then we are just as contaminated by the
GPL as if we included the GPL code. It's something to due with the
precise legal definition of a derived work. Under the GPL, we'd still
be a derived work (or at least that's how I understand what the legal
folks explained to me.)

So we cannot provide support for McKoi, and if someone contributed
a McKoi interface component, we could not put it in our repository.
Sorry.

By the way, there's now an eclipse.technology.stellation. I've
crossposted this there, and I'd prefer to continue the discussion
on that group, where there's a lot less noise.

-Mark

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*** http://www.eclipse.org/stellation
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Re: [STELLATION] mysql+innoDB [message #28954 is a reply to message #23490] Tue, 01 October 2002 23:13 Go to previous message
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What IS McKoi?

"Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <mcc@watson.ibm.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:alq4tt$je8$1@rogue.oti.com...
> On Fri, 06 Sep 2002 21:56:28 +0000, Werner Punz wrote:
>
> > "Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <markcc@bestweb.net> wrote in news:ag5a54$59k$1
> > @rogue.oti.com:
> >
> >
> >> I don't think that we can legally do that. McKoi is GPL, and Stellation
> >> is CPL. Linking them together into a single running process will be a
> >> violation of the GPL.
> >>
> >>
> > Sorry, to jump in that late. I
Re: [STELLATION] mysql+innoDB [message #28993 is a reply to message #28954] Tue, 01 October 2002 21:08 Go to previous message
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On Tue, 01 Oct 2002 23:13:23 +0000, Werner Keil wrote:

> What IS McKoi?

McKoi is a lightweight open-source database written entirely in Java.
It's got the somewhat neat property that the database is implemented
entirely as a library, and can be linked directly into your program. So
instead of the typical database situation where you run a database
server, and then connect to it as a client through the network, you're
linked directly against the database.

For Stellation purposes, we can't use it, because it's GPL, and it
links directly into the system.

-Mark


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*** The Stellation project: Advanced SCM for Collaboration
*** http://www.eclipse.org/stellation
*** Work Email: mcc@watson.ibm.com ------- Personal Email: markcc@bestweb.net
Re: [STELLATION] mysql+innoDB [message #566082 is a reply to message #1229] Fri, 05 July 2002 16:05 Go to previous message
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On Fri, 05 Jul 2002 03:03:03 -0400, xme wrote:

> Hello,
> I've just read the content of the new subproject Stellation...It is very
> interesting... Unlikely it is working only on UNIX platforms. I would
> suggest to use MySQL instead of postgresSQL by adding to MySQL the
> INNODB transactionnal feature...

At the time I started the Stellation project, the transaction support
in MySQL simply wasn't up to what we needed. Based on your message, I
went and took a look at the latest material from InnoDB. It looks like
InnoDB is likely to provide sufficient support for Stellation.

At the moment, our group at IBM is three people, and to be honest, we're
already very over-worked. We would *love* to see someone add InnoDB
support to Stellation. It would likely dramatically improve the
performance of our system. (We're currently significantly slowed down
by some bugs in PostgreSQL JDBC.)

We've got the database specific code pretty tightly encapsulated
in our source. If someone is interested in working on it,
we'll be glad to help show you exactly where all of the database
specific stuff is, and what you'd need to do to add support for a new
database.

It's probably a weeks hacking for someone who's familiar with MySQL. The
biggest piece of work is probably adding documentation for MySQL to the
manuals.

-Mark

--
Mark Craig Chu-Carroll, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
*** The Stellation project: Advanced SCM for Collaboration
*** http://www.eclipse.org/stellation
*** Work Email: mcc@watson.ibm.com ------- Personal Email: markcc@bestweb.net
Re: [STELLATION] mysql+innoDB [message #566109 is a reply to message #1318] Fri, 05 July 2002 18:43 Go to previous message
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I, and perhaps others, may be interested in undertaking this task as I
also see the dependence/reliance on Postgress to be a negative. Would
you mind posting the details for implementing support of a new database
in this forum? It would serve as a type of documentation as well as
saving you the hassle of having to repeat yourself.
I'm also entertaining the idea of porting to other databases such as
the embedded version of McKoi, http://www.mckoi.com, which would create
a unified single process (no dependence on other processes) SCM system.

Mark C. Chu-Carroll wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Jul 2002 03:03:03 -0400, xme wrote:
>
>
>>Hello,
>>I've just read the content of the new subproject Stellation...It is very
>>interesting... Unlikely it is working only on UNIX platforms. I would
>>suggest to use MySQL instead of postgresSQL by adding to MySQL the
>>INNODB transactionnal feature...
>
>
> At the time I started the Stellation project, the transaction support
> in MySQL simply wasn't up to what we needed. Based on your message, I
> went and took a look at the latest material from InnoDB. It looks like
> InnoDB is likely to provide sufficient support for Stellation.
>
> At the moment, our group at IBM is three people, and to be honest, we're
> already very over-worked. We would *love* to see someone add InnoDB
> support to Stellation. It would likely dramatically improve the
> performance of our system. (We're currently significantly slowed down
> by some bugs in PostgreSQL JDBC.)
>
> We've got the database specific code pretty tightly encapsulated
> in our source. If someone is interested in working on it,
> we'll be glad to help show you exactly where all of the database
> specific stuff is, and what you'd need to do to add support for a new
> database.
>
> It's probably a weeks hacking for someone who's familiar with MySQL. The
> biggest piece of work is probably adding documentation for MySQL to the
> manuals.
>
> -Mark
>

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Re: [STELLATION] mysql+innoDB [message #566130 is a reply to message #1229] Fri, 05 July 2002 20:52 Go to previous message
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Postgres is also runnable on top of cygwin on windows.
But of course not so easy to setup like mySQL.

martin
Re: [STELLATION] mysql+innoDB [message #566171 is a reply to message #1318] Fri, 05 July 2002 23:05 Go to previous message
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Originally posted by: bob.objfac.com

Is there some issue with adding a standard MySQL extension to Stellation? I
assuming you're using CPL. The MySQL most people use is GPL. GPL and CPL
don't mix.

Bob

"Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <markcc@bestweb.net> wrote in message
news:ag4ehs$q7u$1@rogue.oti.com...
> On Fri, 05 Jul 2002 03:03:03 -0400, xme wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > I've just read the content of the new subproject Stellation...It is very
> > interesting... Unlikely it is working only on UNIX platforms. I would
> > suggest to use MySQL instead of postgresSQL by adding to MySQL the
> > INNODB transactionnal feature...
>
> At the time I started the Stellation project, the transaction support
> in MySQL simply wasn't up to what we needed. Based on your message, I
> went and took a look at the latest material from InnoDB. It looks like
> InnoDB is likely to provide sufficient support for Stellation.
>
> At the moment, our group at IBM is three people, and to be honest, we're
> already very over-worked. We would *love* to see someone add InnoDB
> support to Stellation. It would likely dramatically improve the
> performance of our system. (We're currently significantly slowed down
> by some bugs in PostgreSQL JDBC.)
>
> We've got the database specific code pretty tightly encapsulated
> in our source. If someone is interested in working on it,
> we'll be glad to help show you exactly where all of the database
> specific stuff is, and what you'd need to do to add support for a new
> database.
>
> It's probably a weeks hacking for someone who's familiar with MySQL. The
> biggest piece of work is probably adding documentation for MySQL to the
> manuals.
>
> -Mark
>
> --
> Mark Craig Chu-Carroll, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
> *** The Stellation project: Advanced SCM for Collaboration
> *** http://www.eclipse.org/stellation
> *** Work Email: mcc@watson.ibm.com ------- Personal Email:
markcc@bestweb.net
Re: [STELLATION] mysql+innoDB [message #566186 is a reply to message #2193] Fri, 05 July 2002 23:34 Go to previous message
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On Fri, 05 Jul 2002 19:05:25 -0400, Bob Foster wrote:

> Is there some issue with adding a standard MySQL extension to
> Stellation? I assuming you're using CPL. The MySQL most people use is
> GPL. GPL and CPL don't mix.

Let me prefix with: I'm not a lawyer. Before we accepted a MySQL component
into our repository, we'd need to do a quick check with the IBM legal folks.

But as I understand it: MySQL's JDBC library is LGPL. Same with
PostgreSQL's JDBC. Given the nature of how JDBC libraries are used by
Java, the IBM legal folk approved the use of PostgreSQL. So I don't
anticipate a problem. But I will need to check.

-Mark


--
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*** The Stellation project: Advanced SCM for Collaboration
*** http://www.eclipse.org/stellation
*** Work Email: mcc@watson.ibm.com ------- Personal Email: markcc@bestweb.net
Re: [STELLATION] mysql+innoDB [message #566206 is a reply to message #2140] Fri, 05 July 2002 23:56 Go to previous message
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On Fri, 05 Jul 2002 14:43:09 -0400, Jason Rimmer wrote:

> I, and perhaps others, may be interested in undertaking this task as I
> also see the dependence/reliance on Postgress to be a negative. Would
> you mind posting the details for implementing support of a new database
> in this forum? It would serve as a type of documentation as well as
> saving you the hassle of having to repeat yourself.

Here's the summary. If you want to discuss it,
I think the Stellation mailing list is likely a better place.

There are two places that need to be updated: the repository
core, and the workspace. (The workspace, for us, covers the
command-line tools to support a workspace.)

The repository core is implemented in org.eclipse.stellation.repos, and
org.eclipse.stellation.repos.artifacts. For the repository core, the
bulk of database dependent code is encapsulated in what we call an
AccessPoint. An access point is the system that provides all access to
the database, generates handles for accessing a repository, and manages
authentication. There's a generic implementation of an AccessPoint
called DBAccessPoint, which parameterizes most of the DB dependent code.
Then there are database specific subclasses of DBAccessPoint. We have
two versions: PostgresAccessPoint, and DB2AccessPoint. If you look at
DBAccessPoint and its two concrete implementations, you should be able
to figure out how to write a MySQL variant.

The other place in the repository core is in what we call Artifact
Agents. This is one of the more unusual pieces of Stellation. Instead
of hardwiring particular kinds of artifacts into the repository, we
have a generic extension point called an Agent that provides everything needed to
support a particular kind of repository artifact. The SQL code for
retrieving and storing a particular kind of artifact is in the artifact
agent. We try to parameterize it as much as possible through the access
points. You'll need to look at the ArtifactAgent types, and see if they
need any SQL customization for MySQL. The SQL is very obvious in the
files, and it should be easy to read and parameterize if necessary.

Finally, you'll need to modify the server, command-line, and
GUI, to allow them to determine what kind of access point they
should use.

For the command-line, that's the class
org.eclipse.stellation.workspace.Location. It determines the kind
of access point to create based on the prefix of its location
parameter.

For the server, it's in the parameter processing code in
org.eclipse.stellation.repos.messaging.server.Server.Again, it's
a simple conditional on the prefix of the location parameter.

For the UI, I'm afraid I need to defer to my coworker Jim Wright,
who can tell you where in the UI it handles AccessPoint creation.
So far, I've spent all of my time working on the repository side,
so I'm just not sufficiently familiar with how Jim handles this in
the UI. I expect it's very similar, except that Jim build some
GUI support for creatin


> I'm also entertaining the idea of porting to other databases such as
> the embedded version of McKoi, http://www.mckoi.com, which would create
> a unified single process (no dependence on other processes) SCM.

I don't think that we can legally do that. McKoi is GPL, and Stellation
is CPL. Linking them together into a single running process will be a
violation of the GPL.

-Mark



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Re: [STELLATION] mysql+innoDB [message #575666 is a reply to message #2249] Fri, 06 September 2002 21:56 Go to previous message
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"Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <markcc@bestweb.net> wrote in news:ag5a54$59k$1
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>
> I don't think that we can legally do that. McKoi is GPL, and Stellation
> is CPL. Linking them together into a single running process will be a
> violation of the GPL.
>

Sorry, to jump in that late. I
Re: [STELLATION] mysql+innoDB [message #575695 is a reply to message #2219] Fri, 06 September 2002 21:57 Go to previous message
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"Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <markcc@bestweb.net> wrote in news:ag58qf$502$1
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> But as I understand it: MySQL's JDBC library is LGPL. Same with
> PostgreSQL's JDBC. Given the nature of how JDBC libraries are used by
> Java, the IBM legal folk approved the use of PostgreSQL. So I don't
> anticipate a problem. But I will need to check.

If there are problems involved in the licensing, I guess, I gave the same
answer before leave the stuff causing problems out, add a text file on how
to integrate the stuff yourself and provide some kind of build file.
Re: [STELLATION] mysql+innoDB [message #575749 is a reply to message #1229] Sat, 07 September 2002 13:28 Go to previous message
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On Fri, 05 Jul 2002 04:03:03 -0300, xme wrote:

> Hello,
> I've just read the content of the new subproject Stellation...It is very
> interesting... Unlikely it is working only on UNIX platforms. I would
> suggest to use MySQL instead of postgresSQL by adding to MySQL the INNODB
> transactionnal feature...
> Regards
> Xavier

For your info:

Oracle and Firebird/Interbase support was added to Stellation.

Browse the mailing lists for more on this.

Regards,

Rodolfo
Re: [STELLATION] mysql+innoDB [message #581682 is a reply to message #21820] Thu, 12 September 2002 09:45 Go to previous message
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On Fri, 06 Sep 2002 21:56:28 +0000, Werner Punz wrote:

> "Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <markcc@bestweb.net> wrote in news:ag5a54$59k$1
> @rogue.oti.com:
>
>
>> I don't think that we can legally do that. McKoi is GPL, and Stellation
>> is CPL. Linking them together into a single running process will be a
>> violation of the GPL.
>>
>>
> Sorry, to jump in that late. IŽm in the long term process of removing
> CVS
> :-), and Stellation might develop into something neat. Anyway back to
> :the
> GPL problem. You might consider adding the support but leaving the GPL
> part out, but providing a working make file and instructions. Then you
> can leave it up to the user on how to handle the licensing issue. Anyway
> I didnŽt know that Stellation already was usable, I will have a look at
> it seriously.

That's not sufficient. I'm not a lawyer, so I don't fully understand
the hows or whys. But if we distribute code that relies on being linked
specifically to something GPL, then we are just as contaminated by the
GPL as if we included the GPL code. It's something to due with the
precise legal definition of a derived work. Under the GPL, we'd still
be a derived work (or at least that's how I understand what the legal
folks explained to me.)

So we cannot provide support for McKoi, and if someone contributed
a McKoi interface component, we could not put it in our repository.
Sorry.

By the way, there's now an eclipse.technology.stellation. I've
crossposted this there, and I'd prefer to continue the discussion
on that group, where there's a lot less noise.

-Mark

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Re: [STELLATION] mysql+innoDB [message #583830 is a reply to message #23490] Tue, 01 October 2002 23:13 Go to previous message
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What IS McKoi?

"Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <mcc@watson.ibm.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:alq4tt$je8$1@rogue.oti.com...
> On Fri, 06 Sep 2002 21:56:28 +0000, Werner Punz wrote:
>
> > "Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <markcc@bestweb.net> wrote in news:ag5a54$59k$1
> > @rogue.oti.com:
> >
> >
> >> I don't think that we can legally do that. McKoi is GPL, and Stellation
> >> is CPL. Linking them together into a single running process will be a
> >> violation of the GPL.
> >>
> >>
> > Sorry, to jump in that late. I
Re: [STELLATION] mysql+innoDB [message #583847 is a reply to message #28954] Tue, 01 October 2002 21:08 Go to previous message
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On Tue, 01 Oct 2002 23:13:23 +0000, Werner Keil wrote:

> What IS McKoi?

McKoi is a lightweight open-source database written entirely in Java.
It's got the somewhat neat property that the database is implemented
entirely as a library, and can be linked directly into your program. So
instead of the typical database situation where you run a database
server, and then connect to it as a client through the network, you're
linked directly against the database.

For Stellation purposes, we can't use it, because it's GPL, and it
links directly into the system.

-Mark


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