Re: [boost] Possible Boost addition; Ditto framework

From: Joel de Guzman (djowel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-07 18:35:18

Hi Martijn,

You very well know that I am scouting for an in memory
data base. I wish to use one in a future project. My
question now is when do you think Ditto will be completed?
Are you looking for other team members/developers?
Also, in terms of features, how does it compare to 
other libraries such as the recently proposed Relational
Tables by Dmitriy Arapov and Arkadiy Vertleyb?

Regards,
--Joel

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martijn W. van der Lee" <gmane_at_[hidden]>
Subject: [boost] Possible Boost addition; Ditto framework

> Hi,
> 
> I've been quietly working on a framework which I think could make a nice
> addition to Boost. Currently it compiles on Borland C++ 5.5.1 and GCC 2.95.3
> (Dev-C++/MinGW) and seems to be stable (though the testcases are not 100%
> implemented yet).
> 
> In short it is an in-memory generic table and view framework where a "table"
> class contains records similar to a database table and "view" classes
> contain sorted and filtered (by means of functors) version of that table.
> These views are updated dynamically so adding a record to the table will
> automatically make it available in all views.
> Furthermore, views can be stacked to allow multiple levels of refinement,
> single records can be selected by using a "tracker" class and events can be
> triggered on any change in the frameworks' classes by means of a "monitor"
> class.
> 
> The original purpose of this library was to replace Borlands' VCL mechanism
> which requires data to be located inside the class handling the visual
> layout, this made it extremely difficult to have multiple separate views of
> the same set of data, the Ditto framework succesfully eliminated this
> problem at the cost of recreating the visual components but with the benefit
> of performance, memory requirements and especially code quality.
> 
> The project is published at sourceforge; http://ditto.sourceforge.net but
> the site is a bit outdated and documentation is especially lacking, the
> current version in CVS is stable and can be downloaded from the project page
> at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ditto
> 
> There are currently still some minor issues with the library (mostly the
> need to specify a dummy filter functor to views when no filter is required)
> but with some help (hint! hint!) I believe the framework could be in a
> finished state within weeks.
> 
> regards,
> Martijn van der Lee
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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