[ZODB-Dev] Re: ANNOUNCE: Python 10 Birds of a Feather session on a Python distributed transaction framework

[Jim Fulton]

This BOF got moved to Tuesday evening at 8pm.

Jim

Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
> We plan to have a Birds of a Feather (BOF) session at the Python 10
> Conference, http://python10.org, on a Python distributed transaction
> 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.
> 
> We have experience using the transaction framework
> with other persistence mechanisms in Zope, including relational
> databases and the light-weight directory access protocol, LDAP.
> This allows distributed transactions to be coordinated among
> multiple database systems. If a transaction is committed or rolled
> back, the commit or rollback happens for each of the participating
> databases. This is very useful. It would be useful to make this
> capability available to other Python applications.
> 
> In particular, it would be worthwhile to explore integrating
> distributed transactions with the Python database API to make it
> easier to coordinate among multiple databases and to better support
> distributed transactions in the Python database API, for example by
> including interfaces to underlying distributed-transaction APIs not
> currently exposed by the Python database API.
> 
> We'd like to kick off an effort to design a transaction framework
> to encompass ZODB, relational databases, and other persistence
> systems.
> 
> The talk BOF begin with a presentation of the ZODB Transaction
> framework.
> 
> The BOF will take place at lunch time on Tuesday, February 5.
> 
> Jim
> 
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