[Seaside] transaction engines?

[goran.krampe at bluefish.se]

radoslav hodnicak <rh at 4096.sk> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Avi Bryant wrote:
> 
> > The thing I don't like about KATS is that it's too ambitious: it tries
> > to have the exact same instances of objects appear to have different
> > state inside different transactions.  This means hacking the compiler
> > so that inst var accesses are actually lookups in the current
> > transaction, which is pretty intrusive.  In Seaside, I don't expect to
> > share instances between sessions, and so having multiple copies of the
> > same object (one per transaction) would be perfectly fine.
> 
> I do want to share instances between seaside sessions. I hate to have
> hundreds of copies of the same model objects around (it just seems silly)
> and to manually expire&reload them (glorp doesn't forward the changes from
> one session to other sessions, unlike e.g. goods).
> 
> But I agree, KATS is probably an overkill and not portable. I guess I'll
> just reuse the code glorp has for transactions and make it nestable and in
> memory etc.

You could also ask Chris Muller if the engine in Magma is easily "broken
out".
I would guess it is.

regards, Göran