Re: [Ganymede Help] External database and Ganymede

[Jonathan Abbey <jonabbey@arlut.utexas.edu>]

| Hi, all
| 
| I am wondering if it is possible to connect the
| Ganymede to an external database like postgres SQL to
| get the information

Ganymede is made to use its own built-in database.  If you want to
load data FROM an external database like postgres sql, you can do a
query from the postgres database and generate the appropriate XML to
be loaded into Ganymede.  Ganymede is not designed to be able to use
postgres sql in place of its internal database.

That said, Ganymede is *extremely* customizable.. almost anything you
can do with Java can be integrated into Ganymede, so it is possible in
theory to make the Ganymede server work directly with Postgres, but
you may have to do a great deal of work to make it happen, and you
would not be using Ganymede in the most natural way.

| sze yee

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Jonathan Abbey 				              jonabbey@arlut.utexas.edu
Applied Research Laboratories                 The University of Texas at Austin
Ganymede, a GPL'ed metadirectory for UNIX     http://www.arlut.utexas.edu/gash2

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