This sounds interesting for us, since you could use it to have your .tap always uptodate, instead of just saving on shutdown. and other interesting uses. The correct day is actually Wednesday. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ZODB-Dev] ANNOUNCE: Python 10 Birds of a Feather session on a Python persistence framework Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 19:12:39 -0500 From: Jim Fulton <jim@zope.com> Reply-To: jim@zope.com Organization: Zope Corporation To: zodb-dev@zope.org We plan to have a Birds of a Feather (BOF) session at the Python 10 Conference, http://python10.org, on a Python persistence framework. The Zope object database, ZODB, includes frameworks for persistence and transaction management. These frameworks depend very little on the rest of ZODB and will be factored out of ZODB and made into separate packages in the next generation of ZODB, ZODB 4. The ZODB persistence framework provides significant benefits to Python programmers: - Objects are automatically loaded and stored. The programmer doesn't have to keep tack of when objects have been modified. The objects track modification and notify the transaction manager of changes. The transaction manager coordinates storing data. Data are loaded when needed, with loads triggered by access from other objects. - An object cache automates moving data out of memory when no longer needed. A cache invalidation protocol helps to keep object consistence across multiple applications or application threads. We would like to see these benefits made available for other databases. We'd especially like to see a persistence framework using relational databases, reusing object-relational mapping efforts, such as MiddleKit and others. We'd like to kick off an effort to design a persistence framework to encompass ZODB, relational databases, and other persistence systems. The BOF will begin with a presentation of the ZODB Persistence framework. The time and location are TBD. Check the BOF schedule when you get to the conference. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:jim@zope.com Python Powered! CTO (888) 344-4332 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org _______________________________________________ For more information about ZODB, see the ZODB Wiki: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/ ZODB-Dev mailing list - ZODB-Dev@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zodb-dev