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

[Ramesh Reddy]

agree, this does not make sense other than the relational sources using
DTP. Designer can use Teiid to create the CF and DS for the source and
keep a copy of all the "-ds.xml" locally *if* needed by exporting them
back from Teiid.

Ramesh..

On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 14:44 -0400, John Doyle wrote:
> 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.