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[Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>]

2009/4/8 Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>:
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>> I had wondered about this.  I have seen the link with DHIS2_HOME but
>> I'm afraid I haven't approached looking at the BIRT webapp at all yet.
>>  I am sure we don't want to skip it so we must find a way.
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>> I also see OPENHEALTH_HOME popping up here and there.
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> Not used for anything currently.
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>> Linking with the parallel conversation regarding running 11 webapps on
>> one tomcat I am drawn increasingly more to the use of context
>> parameters.  System properties are perhaps a step up from environment
>> variables, but they are still inherently global in nature wrt the jvm
>> instance.
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> Yes will be interesting to explore.
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>> Great news on the progress with H2.  Its looking like a winner.
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> Needs more verification. But seems to work nicely, and I have been mailing a
> little with the creator who found it cool that we are using it so we might
> get good support on potential problems.
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>> On the derby front do you think we should create a temporary branch
>> off the trunk for playing with this and also perhaps the context
>> parameters?  When we're happy we can merge it back in to trunk.
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> Sure no problem. Whats I left out was the `indicator` thing and giving
> "text" hibernate types a length.

Will I commit my patches for this? The `indicator` thing won't break
anything.  What is the feeling about restricting varchars to 32K?
We can rename the document.external field to document.extern.

Regards
Bob