MECHENG401:Meetings:3April

Attendance

Nick, Mark, Christof, Gerald

Discussion

• We discussed more about Google Gears and the SQLite DB it has.
  • Synchronisation support for files
    • Consistency during this updating process

• It appears that Gears does not really support the functionality we want, as there is no support for online/offline synchronisation.
• The idea of a a "thick client" with the DB server, application/web server and application/web interface is becoming more attractive.
  • The technology necessary for this is synchronisation of the local and remote databases

TODO: Research DBs that offer synchronisation, open-source tools for DB merging, DB replication etc
A tool that was reusable and could merge/detect conflicts in updating DB tables with the same schema would be a worthwhile contribution to the community and a good secondary goal for the project.