perfsonar development work

[Maciej Glowiak <>]

> > Hmm, I think there is no downside. We use only basic communication to 
> > the eXist DB. XML:DB is Java API for accessing XML databaseses. It's a 
> > common way. Recently I read a discussion on eXist wiki on this topic. 
> > Someone asked why eXist DB Java API used XML:DB which was not so easy 
> > to use. The answer was that it was a standard which should be followed.
>
> Remember that we might need some day encrypted communication between the 
> service and eXist. That new http implementation will have to support it.

Yes, but XML:DB doesn't support security itself. So in both cases we 
must implement security mechanisms for exist db communication.

Maciej

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