Data Access discussed at Xcalia

I’ve heard several complaints about the lack of identity in SDO. This is sadly true and even more critical for the DAS.
The SDO / DAS expert groups are working on it. We should have a solution for that in upcoming versions of these standards.

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Pinaki Poddar started an initiative within Apache Labs for a JPA-based DAS (Fluid).
He explored a JPA-based DAS approach via Fluid which is an Apache Lab project signifying its exploratory approach.
Fluid, through a prototype implementation, establishes the feasibility of such an approach without any modification to JPA.
More information on Fluid can be found at:

Fluid Website

A series [...]

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Definitely not!
There is some confusion about SDO in the industry. I’ve recently seen posts and comments in various blogs and expert groups spreading misconceptions about SDO.
It seems they are afraid by SDO or DAS trying to define yet another standard for persistence.
Here is my answer to them:
AFAIK, I think the SDO group is not trying [...]

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http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=48000
http://people.apache.org/~ppoddar/slice/site/
There is definitely a need for that.
Reminds me of C-JDBC (clustered JDBC):

Old version @ ObjectWeb: http://c-jdbc.objectweb.org/
now Sequoia at Continuent: http://sequoia.continuent.org/HomePage

Requirements for distribution of databases are somewhat close to those of Data Access in SOA.

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This week we have the first DAS 1 et SDO 3 face-to-face meetings. I hope we’ll be able to reach significant milestones for these very important standards for Data Access in SOA. These meetings are kindly hosted by SAP in Berlin.
I remember the JDO face to face meetings had been very efficient in the past, we [...]

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Volta, a new promising technology from Microsoft…

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