My understanding of ODMG standard is superficial, but the motivation of examining Zope's standard compliance are as follows: (pls correct me if I'm wrong) (1) how well it integrates with Corba - i.e. can I access Zope functions from programs written in perl/C/smalltalk/Java via corba, and have zope reuse Corba components written in these languages. (2) how well it complies with the OQL standard - i.e. is it query-lanugage compatiable with e.g. CA's Jasmine ii (3) Zope's architecture is so user-friendly and extensible that i am very pleased with it on small projects, and would be very eager to use it for a large scale implementation if I can find out how it stands re (1)/(2). I feel that Zope is open-sourced has not proved its platform/language transparent integration capabilities (not to ignore the good work done in Z SQL/ODBC/JDBC drivers) on a more sophisticated level. This should be very value-added.
From the replies received, I gather Zope is not very advanced in these directions, psychologically if not actually. I beg any core developer might explain that it will take 3 months'/years' work to make these happen, for example?
Regards, ken young -----Original Message----- From: hannu@hu.tm.ee [mailto:hannu@hu.tm.ee]On Behalf Of Hannu Krosing Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 12:22 AM To: Anthony Baxter Cc: Kenneth Y.K. YOUNG; Zope-Dev Mailing List Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] ODMG compliance? Anthony Baxter wrote:
"Kenneth Y.K. YOUNG" wrote ODMG Compliance
On June 14, 1994, the ODMG Board ( http://www.odmg.org/ ) approved a
list of
object databases as ODMG Compliant and ODMG Certified. ZODB doesn't appear on that list. Ditto for CORBA integration. Anyone knows how standards compliant we are and will be?
This relates to the discussion about a query language for ZCatalog, of course. Unfortunately, the stupid ODMG don't put their standards up on the web, do they... you have to buy the book. This puts something of a dampener on the use and adoption of the OQL.
There seems to be grammar file at http://www.odmg.org/files/oql.g and excerpts from the book at http://www.odmg.org/standard/odmgbookextract.htm so it is not entirely hopeless. ---------------- Hannu