db4o as webservice DB

Quite recently I came across an interesting blog post suggesting that db4o could be used to implement a web service database. As Tetyana Loskutova (a colleague of mine) had been writing about .NET remoting and she is a db4o expert I decided to point her to this blog post (I thought she might come up with some ideas).

Well, I was surprised to see that she quickly came up with a working example based on the blog post under discussion. You can read her article "Using a Database Over a Webservice" here; it's definitely worth it! (Also available here through CodeProject.com)

Here I quote the initial paragraphs:

"It is just one more way to realize a remote persistence.

In fact, putting any database on a web-server and providing a remote user interface to it, will realize the same idea from a user point of view. The interesting point of this solution is in the fact that no extra interface is developed, actually database interface is just transferred over the network.

This realization is possible due to the simple object-oriented interface provided by db4o database.

A possible implementation can be in providing personal web-based databases for remote
customers. Assuming that each user will use only one and his own database, this solution seems to be viable, providing the data is personally encrypted and unique database names are used."

Enjoy!