<br>Hello,<br><br>I like SmallDBX<br><br>:))<br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/3/4 Mariano Martinez Peck <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marianopeck@gmail.com">marianopeck@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse;">We are really happy to announce that ESUG
will sponsor us once again through the ESUG Summer Talk project. This means
that we have reached the ESUG expectations and that they still think
that relational database access is an important matter in Smalltalk.<br>
<br>One important thing is that we are going to rename the project (we
are still working on it) since SqueakDBX runs not only in Squeak but
also in Pharo, and there have been even ports to Dolphin. What's the
reason for this decision? Because we do not want to couple ourselves to a
smalltalk dialect nor to OpenDBX, because our project is much more than
that (later I will tell you about our plans). So, these are some of the
possible names: ObjectPark, SmallParking, Parktalk, SmallValet,
Valetalk, ValetST, NorayTalk, Ballard, Noray and Cruise. Please let us
know which one is your favourite or help us find a new one.<br>
<br>Another important subject is the team. There will be three
"mentors", Esteban Lorenzano, Diogenes Moreira and myself, Mariano
Martinez Peck; and three students: Guillermo Polito, Nicolas Scarcella
and Santiago Bragagnolo.<br>
<br>We are open to suggestions and ideas. In addition, we have defined a
possible list of actions that I copy at the end of the email.<div><br><br>For the moment, the url remains <a href="http://www.squeakdbx.org/" style="color: rgb(28, 81, 168);" target="_blank">www.squeakdbx.org</a> and the mailing list <a href="mailto:squeakdbx@lists.squeakfoundation.org" style="color: rgb(28, 81, 168);" target="_blank">squeakdbx@lists.squeakfoundation.org</a><br>
<br></div>Once again, we want to thank ESUG for their support and trust.<br><br>Thank
you very much,<br><br>SqueakDBX team<br> <br><br><br><br><br>Possible
list of actions:<div><br><br>1) Change SqueakDBX’s name. <br><br>2)
Update GLORP version since the actual one is 3 years old. <br>
<br>Port it again from VisualWorks, create a VW porting tool (may be).<br>Complete
support to Glorp. Today it works with PostgreSQL, Oracle and MySQL.
Make it work with most databases OpenDBX supports.<br><br>3) Create a
lightweight solution, alternatively to GLORP. There are some options:<br>
<br>Make SqueakSave work with SqueakDBX. SqueakSave developers already
contacted us because they wanted to do it. SqueakSave seems to be 20%
slower than Glorp but you don't need to write the mappings :)<br>Adapt
Ramon Leon's active record to use an abstract database driver, and
create a driver for SqueakDBX.<br>
Port the new Glorp’s kind of active record to Pharo. (included in 2).<br><br>4)
Write a Pharo By Example 2 chapter based on the card game Stef built
;).<br><br>5) Cog compatibility.<br><br>6) Use Alien instead of FFI.<br>
Eliot is working on a threaded CogVM. One of the projects of the GSoC of
this year was to make something similar to a threaded FFI. What the
student did is a modification in Alien (I think) that can be run in a
multithreaded envirorment. He worked with Eliot. The idea is when Eliot
releases the threaded CogVM, this FFI would work our of the box, and
would avoid locking the WHOLE vm while a C function is being invoked (as
it happens today with FFI).....So....when that VM is released, we MUST
migrate to that).<br>
<br>7) Explore performance issues (maybe with our approach of "In thread
execution plugin").<br><br></div>8) Complete integration with OpenDBX.
For example, Oracle, for large objects (Clob, Blob, etc) use specific
functions. There are specific functions in OpenDBX that have to be used
if the database uses specific functions (oracle is the only one for the
moment.). We don't manage those functions yet.<div><br>
<br>9) In this link <a href="http://www.squeakdbx.org/Targets%20and%20Features" style="color: rgb(28, 81, 168);" target="_blank">http://www.squeakdbx.org/Targets%20and%20Features</a><br>You
can see a list of future possible features like Connection pooling (now
it is done!), Prepared statement interface, Store procedures, Escape
and avoid of SQL insertion, Authentication support: extends to other
methods, not only user/password, Full text support, etc.</div></span>
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