[omniNotify] Development Status

[Robert E. Gruber]

Yes, reliability and persistence are two things that
I would love to work on.  I almost put them  down
except I wanted to stick to things I know I can get
done in 2002.

The other thing I did not put down is performance
improvements.  With omniORB4 there are some very
interesting things one could do.  (I think omniNotify
is already fast compared to some other notification
services, but making it even faster would be fun.)

Some obvious approaches to event persistence are:
  1. use the file system
  2. use an open source DB directly
  3. drive any DB using an open source ODBC driver

I suspect these options are ordered from fastest
to slowest (but least to most flexible),
but I would have to do experiments to find out.

Work on this is not happening soon, I'm afraid,
unless someone else does it.  

-- Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Berry [mailto:Matthew.Berry@aspentech.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 10:28 AM
To: Robert E. Gruber; omninotify-list@omniorb-support.com
Subject: RE: [omniNotify] Development Status

Bob,

Thanks for your reply - glad to hear omniNotify is still being worked on,
albeit slowly.

Correct me if I am wrong, by I don't think omniNotify supports persistent
events at the moment. Have you considered this for future development?

Thanks again
Matthew