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initial import of openisis 0.9.0 vendor drop

1 review of the OpenIsis Java interface
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3 * Java, Server and Sessions
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5 Approaching version 0.9 of OpenIsis,
6 giving the concepts needed for a multisession server,
7 we also have to revise the options for the Java binding.
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10 When speaking about Java, we mostly have Java Servlet Engines in mind.
11 Therefore we assume that we are running multithreaded,
12 and that we have little control about the selection of threads.
13 A client's request already has a thread dedicated to it,
14 and this thread cannot do anything else before this request is served,
15 i.e. requests can't be somehow queued or postponed.
16 Therefore asynchronous access to a database is mostly pointless.
17 All we can do is to synchronize access by blocking one thread
18 while another accesses the same ressource.
19 To not reduce concurrency to complete mutual exclusion,
20 we clearly need database sessions.
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23 Moreover we have to assume that we have multiple users,
24 which might be represented by Http sessions.
25 Where database sessions are configured to keep results sets,
26 they should be bound to Http sessions.
27 Otherwise we might pick an unused database session from a pool.
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30 * Java on a local db
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32 The situation of a local database accessed from a servlet engine
33 is similar to that of a dedicated database server in that we
34 have multiple sessions and multiple threads.
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37 The multiplexer, ensuring that there are no two
38 requests running in parallel on a given session,
39 is implemented in Java by synchronizing on the Java
40 object representing each session.
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42 The creation of a session is synchronized on the default session.
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45 A servlet engine accessing a local db may not only
46 create cute looking HTML pages (by means of JSPs),
47 but may also provide a general purpose database server,
48 speaking a HTTP wrapped variant of the server protocol.
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52 * Java as client of a remote db
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54 On the other hand, a database session might be a client session
55 bound to some OpenIsis server.
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57 Since the protocol used for communication with a server is pretty simple,
58 and we will use synchronous access anyway,
59 we are planning to implement this in pure Java.
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62 This will remove the need for JNI, which has some problems
63 especially where servlet engines deploy multiple class loaders
64 for what they think are "web apps".
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68 $Id: Java.txt,v 1.1 2003/01/07 19:28:25 kripke Exp $

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