Re: components

[Vivien Malerba <malerba linuxave net>]

On mer, 29 mar 2000, you wrote:
> > > If I understand what you are saying then the config would
> > > be triggered by a call to the (in this case) gda-odbc-srv ?
> > >
> >
> > Yes, I think this is the way it works. The client need to have a container, and
> > in this container puts the component directly provided by the provider
> > (gda-*-srv), so each provider can put specific information in its component.
> >
> 
> Well, I was thinking to have the components in separate processes, not in the
> gda-*-srv, since this will add a dependency on bonobo for the providers, and as
> we'll be moving to OAF when it's ready (OAF is the libgnorba replacement), which
> is X-independent, we don't want to do this.

Ok, and there will be one of these processes per provider.

> 
> But, as Vivien suggested, I'll place the GnomeDbComponent class in a separate
> library. libgdacomponents?

For the XML queries, I have the idea to create a lib which is also accessible
from the clients and the providers, so maybe we could put the components lib
and the XML lib into the same lib (and name it something like libgdacommon).
What do you think?

> 
> Then, in the config components you'll be able to use any RDBMS-specific API. Also,
> I'm thinking on implementing a gda-components process which will make use of this
> libgdacomponents to provide all widgets in gda-clnt-ui as bonobo components. This
> does not mean that you'll have to code a bonobo container to use the widgets.
> They'll continue to be available as normal GTK widgets, but there will be this
> gda-components process on top of them to be able to use them also as bonobo
> components.
> 
> Ok, if no complains arise, I'll continue with this.

I agree!

Cheers!
Vivien