[info-mcl] Wood on MCL 5.1

[Terje Norderhaug]

On Feb 20, 2008, at 10:44 PM, Ron Garret wrote:
> FYI, my experience with WOOD is that it is a little sketchy even at
> its best.  I ran a WOOD application under OS 9 for a couple of months
> and then experienced unrecoverable database corruption.  YMMV of  
> course.

I have used WOOD for years as a proxy cache for data stored  
elsewhere, typically XML files or resources. If the database is  
corrupted, it can be regenerated with no loss of data.

For example, my Interaction web application platform parses XML files  
and resources into structures in a WOOD database, only updating the  
database when the files or resources change. This allows fast server- 
side processing of XML content no matter the size of the files or the  
memory of the computer.

I think WOOD has a great potential to be used for application data  
caches, like those frequently kept in the ~user/Library/Caches folder.

-- Terje Norderhaug