Re: [Demexp-dev] Which architecture and languages for next developments?

[David MENTRE]

Hello,

David MENTRE <address@hidden> writes:

> I have already made a web interface to demexp[1] using the WDialog
> framework[2], which is using the OCaml language. WDialog allows to write
> web interface, and other OCaml modules allow to interface with SQL
> databases. If I follow the same approach, I would have roughly the
> following architecture:
>
>  Web browser <--HTTP--> WDialog interface <--demexp RPC--> demexp server
>                                 ^                               ^
>                                 |                               |
>                                 v                               v
>                           SQL database                       XML file

No much answer since my last post. :( 

Anyway, I dug a little more on the database side of this architecture
and even asked on the caml-list[1].  It appears that there are several
opportunities to store persistent information from OCaml:

 - Dbi module to interface with real databases (MySQL, ...) or SQLite
   database-in-a-file;

 - Berkeley DB;

 - standard OCaml's Dbm module.

The RAS which hosts demexp server provides MySQL database,
linux-france.org also as a MySQL server. So, depending on our need to
make structured queries, we might use either Dbi/SQL or either Berkeley
DB. I'll tend to avoid Dbm as it appears to be quite sensible to
failures (somebody told me that privately).

I don't know yet our need regarding structured queries: it might be
useful to have a typed database and make queries on tables' content.

Best wishes,
d.

Footnotes: 
[1]  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.caml.general/31836

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