Rocael, I'm afraid that description of "WS external query execution"
isn't enough for me to understand it either. First of all, just what
is a "WS", who controls it, why are you querying it, and what sort of
queries does it accept? E.g., does it accept SQL? (This all has
something to do with the "web services" buzzword, I guess?) What is
the actual problem you want to solve here?
You're suggesting integrating this WS query support (whatever it is
exactly) in the db_* API, and depending how all this works, accessed
using either the existing -dbn switch, or some new switch
similar to it. Does any underlying WS support for ns_db
already exist? Are you planning to integrate support at the ns_db
level, or as some totally separate module which would get stuffed into
the OpenACS db_* API along side of ns_db?
