[teiid-designer-dev] Potential Designer Source Bindings Strategy

[John Doyle]

----- "John Verhaeg" <jverhaeg at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mar 25, 2010, at 9:07 AM, John Doyle wrote:
> 
> > Do you think it would be a workable solution to enable a user to
> configure connections to multiple Teiids, but have only one connection
> alive at a time?  All the UI would then be synchronized to that Teiid
> and we could do our 'hidden' work safely.
> 
> Yes, I think that would be feasible, but I'm still losing the
> motivation for making any of this hidden.
+1 I don't like hidden when it's possible to do things in a comprehensible open way.

> 
> > A container DS is not supposed to used outside of the container. 
> There are ways you can hack access, but it's an anti-pattern.  With
> the DTP plugins I'm working on the user will be able to configure a
> DTP connection to the source DBMS and view the data through the same
> UI that they will use to query Teiid.  I think this is a pretty good
> solution, and a nice new feature that we'll get for free.
> 
> I'm not sure, but I think I'm talking about the same thing.  I didn't
> mean to imply the use of the container DS, just to use DTP to preview
> the data on the source DBMS via the same DTP connection that was
> initially used during import, vs. using DTP to query the source model
> via a VDB deployed to a Teiid.
> 
We are talking about the same thing.

> Thanks,
> 
> JPAV