Re: [teiid-dev] Fwd: [teiid-designer-dev] Connection Factories

Sorry Ramesh, I seem to have ignored this email. Ken and I discussed this today. I don't think there should be a ConnectionProfile for each source. We could create profiles for each of the source we support, but I think there are two strong reasons not to. 1. The ConnectionProfile for non-JDBC sources would only be usable by our importers. For example, were I to create implement the DTP connection framework for Salesforce, I could modify the importer to the resulting ConnectionProfile. But to have the rest of the DTP framework use the ConnectionProfile I would have to implement the getting of the metadata for DTP, and the mapping of the query API to DTP, etc. It's a lot of work with no real value for us, and if we didn't do 'all' the work, it would be confusing for a knowledgeable user of DTP. 2. Some of import sources don't have a connection. XML to Relational and SOAP relational don't have to get their metadata from a 'connection' at all. As often as not the metadata comes from a file on disk, and the connector points elsewhere. This doesn't mean that the importer or some other action can't produce the info needed for the ~ds.xml. ~john ----- "Ramesh Reddy" <rareddy(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: