[Zope-dev] ODMG compliance?

[Kenneth Y.K. YOUNG]

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.

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Hannu