SE 696698 Intermediate Presentation

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SE 696/698 Intermediate Presentation

• Interface and System Design of Native XML
  Databases
• By Alfred Wendt
• users.rcn.com/wendta/se690/se690.htm

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Agenda

• Topic Summary Interface and System Design of
  Native XML Databases
• Project History
• Current Project Status
• Future Plans
• Lesson's Learned What I had to start doing
  right, and what I had to stop doing wrong

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Topic Summary

• Interface and System Design of Native XML
  Databases

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Topic Summary(2)

• NXD DefinitionMy definition Native XML
  databases are databases designed especially to
  store XML documents.

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Project History

• How and where this project got started
• Project vision
• Software Engineering Studio
• XML-Based Development
• Project design goals
• XML-Based Persistence.
• Full-text search capable.
• Document versioning

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Project History(2)

• Project requirements
• Create, insert, update, delete XML documents.
• Search for XML documents.
• Relational
• Hierarchal
• Transactional updates

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Current Project Status

• Where this project is at
• Implementation Stage
• Deliverables
• NXDMS API
• API to add, delete, update, retrieve, search.
• NXDBuilder Utility
• Create persistable entities.
• C class file. This class file understands how
  to read and write values from/to its related XML
  file.
• An XSD (XML Schema definition language) file for
  validation.
• A DDL (data definition language) file.

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Current Project Status(2)

• Schedule
• Intermidate Deliverables
• Tools
• Samples
• Software Demo and Library
• Requirements and Design
• Web site

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Current Project Status(2)

• Future Plans
• Fully implemented Demo
• Final report
• Finalized designs, code
• Demo of the completed software and show workflow
  of using the product
• Final presentation August, September

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Lessons Learned

• What I had to start doing right, and what I had
  to stop doing wrong
• If it can go wrong, it will!
• Bringing your project inside.
• Software labs, access to software labs, software
  installed/installable in software labs
• Choose your media
• Thumb drive and license Adobe Acrobat for
  converting your word files to PDF. It will save
  you a lot of frustration.

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Lessons Learned(2)

• Prototype early and often, even if you're doing a
  thesis.
• Trust yourself Don't let a simple fly fool you
• Its gonna take a while.

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Lessons Learned(3)

• Keep a consistent vision
• "Interface and System Design of Native XML
  Databases"

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Closure

• Project URL
• http//users.rcn.com/wendta/se690/se690.htm
• References? See this web site.
• Questions?