[ZODB-Dev] A koan: persistent object with no container

[Stephan Richter]

On Friday 14 November 2008, Shane Hathaway wrote:
> ... which opens the door for a lot of interesting ways to use the
> persistence framework.  Linking your object to the root causes your
> object to be managed by a ZODB.Connection and you get all the associated
> assumptions about pickling, ID management, etc.  But if you instead
> assign the object to some persistence manager other than a
> ZODB.Connection, you could integrate with other kinds of storage systems
> without using pickles.  I don't think this area has been explored nearly
> as much as it deserves.

Yep, I agree. I was at some point thinking about writing a storage layer for 
an XML or JSON DB.

Regards,
Stephan
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