Distributed Database Architectures

Distributed Database Architectures

Distributed Database Architectures

One of the first jobs that the creator of a new OpenOffice.org Base database does is to register the database. They do this so that:

  • all Openoffice.org applications (for example Writer and Calc) are aware of the location of the database and can access it easily
  • the database can be be accessed by a user from any OpenOffice.org applications. This is done by clicking on View | Data Sources or pressing F4 (as shown in figure1 at the bottom of this article)

This, of course, raises an issue for any database developer. If the database is to be distributed to a number of computers then it will have to be registered on each machine. However, that's not so much of a problem since the release of OpenOffice.org 3.1.

The database designer can now store macros in the database file. This means that a programmer can create a self registering database.


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