Need help to locate HSQLDB in Base

Muhammad Waqas Iftikhar coldheartpks at gmail.com
Mon Aug 6 11:01:20 PDT 2012


We have been looking on different kind of databses to embed under
libreoffice base.
Some few ones we like are:

Friebird (but has some issues with embedding it under linux it doesnt work
easily. Not only this you will have to embed Classic under linux and its
architecture is not suitable for an application like base and it wont be
'pure' embedded server)

MySQL/ libmysqld (GPL issue. What i have derived from difference between
LGPL and GPL licenses i have come to conclusion that if we use libmysqld
and as .DLL / .SO there wont be any license issue as Base being "FOSS" free
open source software has the right to use it libmysld in it if we mention
that this particular library is under GPL license and no commercial
organisation can use it without permission of Oracle without changing our
license.
But we cannot amend any code part of libmysqld if we do this then we will
be owner of of that amended library and according to LGPL commercial
organisation will be able to use it. So to do that libre will have to come
to GPL license. What we derived to make mysql as embedded in base it would
had to be amended a little run .ODB files and store databases in .ODB
files. If we are wrong or we can avoid this amendment then i think best
choice is mysqld. Its footprint is not huge and provides nearly every thing
one can need. High performance SQL standards etc.)

We can also embed PostgreSQL. An embedded version is not available but we
can pack the binaries of postgresql with it. Run it when application starts
in a new thread and bind it listen to to only local host. Then kill
the process and wait the thread to join before exiting the application. It
can also resolve many major f*unctionalities and platform issues.)*
- Note: if we embed MySQL or PostgreSQL the work would be very less also.
As their drivers are already written.

Oracle's berkley db is also very good option for embedded as it is open
source. Its an SQL dbms but is not relational dbms.)

SQLite already voted out. Rest all DBMS that can be embedded i saw are
under commercial license or only runs in Windows based applications).

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Muhammad Waqas Iftikhar <
coldheartpks at gmail.com> wrote:

> Me and my friends are trying to work on to embedd SQLite under base
> instead of hsqldb. For that we are trying to understand how BASE works with
> HSQLDB for now. We've been debugging Libreoffice for a while now. In our
> search for code relating to HSQLDB, we've gone through the code in the
> "load" function of "dbloader2.cxx" found in the "source/filter/xml"
> directory under the "dbaccess" module as well as the code in
> "connection.cxx" file found in the "source/code/dataaccess" folder, also
> under the "dbaccess" module. We've seen how the wizards and the windows for
> Base are initialized and then displayed and how the connection is
> established when the tables are to be accessed. However, we haven't been
> able to locate the portion of code that actually initializes HSQLDB. Please
> give us an idea of how to proceed further.
>
> --
> Regards Waqas
>



-- 
Regards Waqas
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