RE: [stellation-res] Location option

["Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 14:11, Jonathan Gossage wrote:
> 
> I don't think I explained myself properly. To me, establishing the
> connection parameters for a specific repository is an administrative
> function that should only have to be done once for any given repository.
> Consider the normal operation of Stellation where we have a server that can
> support one or more repositories. In this case once the back end database is
> established, the connection parameters will only change on a very infrequent
> basis. Clients should simply have to say that they wish to access a given
> repository without concern for the gory details that make it happen.
> 
> It makes sense for the administration utility to have direct "local"
> connection to the back-end database for a repository but not for normal
> clients, whether command line or IDE based. So what I would like to see is a
> connection configuration capability added to the administration utility that
> can be run once to establish the connection paramters. This configuration
> utility would understand the connection information requirements for each
> supported database platform and would only request relevant information for
> that specific platform. This eliminates the problem of determining which
> connection parameters are relevant for which platform.
> 
> Initially this capability should be provided in a command line version, but
> eventually I would like to see both command line and GUI interfaces to a
> common administrative core.
> 
> The final piece of the puzzle is to provide a means for clients to specify
> and save repository connection information (i.e. the host name of the
> repository server and the port) each indexed by the repository name. Given
> this capability, a user need never specify anything other than the name of
> the desired repository, and if the user only accesses a single repository,
> then nothing should need to be specified.

OK. I see what you're getting at now. +1.

	-Mark


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