Mash Apache Derby with New OpenOffice 2.0 feature 52
An anonymous reader writes "Document storage is hot, hot, hot! There has been an explosion of methodologies and tool sets — both open source and proprietary — to fulfill the demand for quickly locating and searching documents. Mash Apache Derby with a new OpenOffice 2.0 feature to create a repository that lets you store, search, and extract ODF documents in a standards-based manner."
What's so new about this... (Score:5, Informative)
Haven't these folk heard of Web-DAV before?
Second that! (Score:3, Informative)
And what is even more amazing, after logging in (with bugmenot) the beginning of the article makes no mention what the special feature of OOo actually isThe go straight into installing and building a db. No mention whatsoever what the problem area is and why his solution is a good one. That combined with the silly pageturning thing made me give up reading it.
Re:Holy bloated... (Score:2, Informative)
Derby is actually quite small, it is around 1mb, compared to 42 mb for most MySQL downloads for instance. And it is a very capable database engine. Java takes up a lot of memory to increase performance, true, but only if it is unused memory, and you can decrease the size used with JVM startup parameters and still get very good performance.
OO, ok, I'll give you that. It is probably the biggest app in a given Linux installation, but compared to "the other" fully featured office suite I don't think it is excessively big.