D.Box Status, Plans, Concerns

4 Dec 2002

Status

50% Each CDF & Minos
CDF (takes more than 50%)
- Care and Feeding of Low Level Database API
  - C++ API connecting to Oracle through:
    - AC++ (CDF maintains)
    - DBManager (jbk author)
    - DBObjects (jbk, dbox and other authors)
    - Oracle Template Library (freeware,maintained by dbox)
    - Oracle Call Interface (commercial library from oracle)
- Codegen Re-Write
  - Java program takes simple objects, interrogates them through Reflection API and outputs C++ code that interfaces to above libraries as well as text db and various freeware
  - Really cool but, it grew too fast ( metastasized?) and is unmaintainable
  - Rewrite started over a year ago, moved in fits and starts.
  - Going to be finished 'soon'
    - Hardest part seems to be the the makefiles

Last modified: Wed Dec 4 10:51:23 CST 2002