I'm back

[Kurt Ward <ku...@yahoo.com>]

Hey guys-

I'm moved and back up and running for the most part.  Looks like Kimbro has
been busy with changes for a 1.1 release, very cool.  What can I do to help?
Command line tools?  XML-RPC optimization?  ???

Kurt

RE: debug mode

[Aline <al...@webcaster.fr>]

> What do you mean by "debug mode"?
When I start xindice, a console is opened and all the exceptions appear in
it with the prompt DEBUG> before.
Is there a way to disable this or to redirect the messages because when an
exception is thrown, the computer ring.


>
> On Thursday, July 18, 2002, at 07:57  AM, Aline wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does anyone know how to disable the debug mode on windows when Xindice
> > starts?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Aline
> >
> >
> Kimbro Staken
> Java and XML Software, Consulting and Writing http://www.xmldatabases.org/
> Apache Xindice native XML database http://xml.apache.org/xindice
> XML:DB Initiative http://www.xmldb.org
>
>

Re: debug mode

[Kimbro Staken <ks...@xmldatabases.org>]

What do you mean by "debug mode"?

On Thursday, July 18, 2002, at 07:57  AM, Aline wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know how to disable the debug mode on windows when Xindice
> starts?
>
> Thanks
> Aline
>
>
Kimbro Staken
Java and XML Software, Consulting and Writing http://www.xmldatabases.org/
Apache Xindice native XML database http://xml.apache.org/xindice
XML:DB Initiative http://www.xmldb.org

debug mode

[Aline <al...@webcaster.fr>]

Hi,

Does anyone know how to disable the debug mode on windows when Xindice
starts?

Thanks
Aline

Re: I'm back

[Kimbro Staken <ks...@xmldatabases.org>]

VERY glad to see your back. :-) It's been pretty lonely around here lately.

The most important thing to do right now is stabilize enough that we can 
do a alpha/beta release of 1.1. I'm hoping we can add a few of the more 
commonly asked for features that don't require major surgery, but overall 
getting a new release out that fixes as many of the common bugs as 
possible should probably be our priority.

I finally have access to bugzilla so as soon as I have the time I'll set 
it up so that we can start tracking issues.

Here's what I think we need to do before we can get 1.1 out for wider 
testing.

- Better test and stabilize the new XML-RPC based XML:DB API and the new 
embedded XML:DB API.

- Finish implementing compressed document support over XML-RPC. I 
implemented it for GetDocument to figure out how it works, so I just need 
to add it in other places as well.

- Make sure we get better / more useful error messages out of the server. 
 From what I've seen of what you did with XML-RPC, it's already quite a bit 
better, but I'm hoping we can review this more so we stop seeing errors 
with just numbers or other unhelpful things.

- Update the documentation. I've been doing some of this, but we have no 
documentation on the new XML-RPC API or the embedded API and the docs 
still talk about CORBA.

- Decide about XMLObjects. In particular I'd like your opinion here, as I 
know you were using them. I'd like to replace them with a simpler custom 
message facility for XML-RPC. If we decide to do that, then we need to 
implement that facility. Otherwise we need to fix XMLObjects, which I 
completely broke again.

A few simple features that we should probably add.

- The ability to get query results without the document key and collection 
being added to the result.

- Through XML-RPC the ability to request partial results on queries. i.e. 
results 1-10, 11-20 and so on. There's no way to expose this through the 
XML:DB API, but having it in XML-RPC would be a start.

- Full parsing of documents on the client. Basically we'd just send the 
compressed byte array from the client to the server. This would also allow 
us to support simple schema and DTD validation on insertion by simply 
providing a way to utilize those features in Xerces. This would be 
implemented as part of the XML:DB API.

Whatever else we can do to make this thing more useful to people.

I've started looking at doing an update to the XML:DB API to fix the 
issues that it has. Unfortunately, it will be a pretty major change and 
won't at all be backwards compatible. I'm not sure how to go about this 
yet.

Anyway, let me know what you want to tackle or point out any things that I'
m missing.

On Wednesday, July 17, 2002, at 04:03  PM, Kurt Ward wrote:

> Hey guys-
>
> I'm moved and back up and running for the most part.  Looks like Kimbro 
> has
> been busy with changes for a 1.1 release, very cool.  What can I do to 
> help?
> Command line tools?  XML-RPC optimization?  ???
>
> Kurt
>
>
Kimbro Staken
Java and XML Software, Consulting and Writing http://www.xmldatabases.org/
Apache Xindice native XML database http://xml.apache.org/xindice
XML:DB Initiative http://www.xmldb.org