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[linas@linas.org]

It's been rumoured that cbbrowne@ntlug.org said:
> 
> It should be clear why Transaction engine and DB engine should stay close;
> they will need to communicate quite a lot of data in order to negotiate
> the parts that are to be submitted to the GUI.  A "for instance" would
> be that if the DB does not support computing sums/balances internally,
> the transaction engine will need to do so, and will have to talk heavily
> with DB.

I had always hoped/envisioned that the engine could run both in the server
*and* the client.  In the client, it provides a convenient programming
API, and a data cache.  In the server, it provides transactional
capabilities & functions (and a convenient programng API).


--linas