[Gnue-dev] Reinhard's white paper

[Neil Tiffin]

I think we should add some thoughts.

1) Technical Goals

- central repository for defining business rules, methods and data 
that does not require a software developer to adapt to the business.

2) GNUe Object Access Translator (GOAT)

Security at the GOAT level will select or reject database rows based 
on the users authorizations to any regular query.

Example:  if the division president uses a form to request all sales 
orders, GOAT will query the database and return only the object data 
that represents the divisions sales orders.

Form level (view) security will not be enforced by GOAT.

GOAT will also provide object transparency.  Meaning that there will 
not necessarily be a direct relationship between business objects and 
tables.

3) Sorry but I don't like the acronyms.  Not a big deal however.

4) I think we have more modules than are contained in the white 
paper.  Reinhard did you see my latest diagram or did you have a 
different concept?

(http://www.gnuenterprise.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=NS-My_eGallery&file=index&do=showpic&pid=31)

Suggest we add
- Security Adapter (we need to consider LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)
- Remote Protocol Adapter (CORBA, COM, XML-RPC or other RPC)

Feel free to make up more acronyms.

5) As shown in the Drawing (mentioned above) I think that GEDI is 
actually several modules.  One module for each database to implement 
the protocol to communicate with the database. And one SQL generator 
module for unique class of database.  It may turn out that each 
database has its own SQL generator. If so, thats ok.  But the SQL 
generation should be separate from the interface.

Neil