Wanted to stop by and see what Jeroen van Rotterdam (XDB genius) and David Louie have cooked-up for XML in Documentum.  Been doing a lot of work here and I want to see growth.

• XProc is shown as the core of the XML Processing model.  The engine works with the xDB database and uses a full collection of XML technonlogies to work.
• DITA: “Do It Truly Awful” (Funny, I love Jeroen sometimes)
• xDB 10: GA in 2010 Q2, “very very soon”
  • XA Transaction manager and can now be a resource in an XA transaction manager (2-phase commit)
  • Parallel (lazy) zquery execution
• Standard slide showing how xDB performance scales extremely well slide.  Always impressive.
• Says solid state will change DB world, some cool performance numbers versus normal RAID0 disk.
• xDB gives you ability to create a Virtual repository that is partitioned over several nodes, transactions cannot cross nodes
• No schema for the database, just well-formed XML, allowing for XML model to change
• Multi-path indexes, allow index structures to be as flexible as the XML structures
  • Auto indexing, as the structure changes, the index adjust
  • Lucene is the index engine supporting xDB
• More XQFT (now 70%) support in xDB 10
  • Times filter “occurs at least 2 time”
  • “at start/at end/at content” qualifiers
• All xDB 10 features are in DSS
• HA/DR features in xDB 10 with the multi-node, N+1 (DSS model…YEA!!!)
• XProc integrates multiple XML tech, takes care of “plumbing”
• XProc Engine on EDN, along with a designer
• XProc DITA pipe lines (available soon)  (this summer)
• XProc integrated into Content Server in D6.7 – embedded within DFC
• Some performance hit as it has to go through Content Server before hitting XDB
  • C code to java, so web server in middle to facilitate
  • XQuery engine in DFC can talk straight to XQuery engine in the XML Store which does a quick security call back to Content Server (why not make it all java to speed everything up?)
• Demos! (Jeroen always does live demos of experimental code, always fun)

That may be it for notes.  I’m heading to get some coffee and meet with more people.  If you get a chance, go see Cornelia Davis talk at 1pm today in room 207.

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