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The multi-faced nature of the NSF


I'm running the XPages enablement workshop in Beijing this week. Having to teach other about new functionality guarantees either dispair or insight. Today I had a rather insightful moment. Very often the NSF gets blasted for being a "flat-file-non-relational-whatever" file. When having a closer look at the format however you will realize, that it is a quite amazing part of technology:
  • Build to function as a "whatever-you-want-to-dump-into" data store
  • Build backward compatible. I still can open R2 databases in my R8.5 client
  • Build to run on a client and on a server with high concurrent access
  • Build to be robust: event if you tourture it (diskspace, sectors etc.) it will mostly recover
  • Build to provide fulltext search access
  • Build to be what you want it to be: if you happen to be a Notes client or a Domino server, it is a repository for design elements and a document database. If you happen to be the Eclipse IDE (or a webDAV client) it is a file system. If you happen to be the XPages server task it is a WAR application store. And if you happen to be David Allen, it is your trusted system for Getting-Things-Done
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Posted by on 14 October 2008 | Comments (1) | categories: Show-N-Tell Thursday XPages

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  1. posted by moncler on Monday 27 September 2010 AD:
    When having a closer look at the format however you will realize, that it is a quite amazing part of technology