Last evening I started a little couch development project, in front of the TV. The data I am used to work with is mostly in JSON format already so I read a bit on couchDB. Since my use-case allows storage in the cloud Iwas curious about Frank van der Linden’s cloudant-connector plugin so I gave it a swing.
Cloudant is the cloud version of CouchDb. Which is invented by Damien Katz, who also was involved by the creation of the NSF.
I found on the internet a very nice easy to use open source project, Java-cloudant, who is doing the heavy lifting in the interaction with Cloudant.
I guess for an XPages developer this is the easiest way to get started with Cloudant.You can also load the libraries yourself as Stephan Wissel describes . At this point I am not sure what option I like best.
It turns out with Frank’s pluginyou can develop really
fastrapid. If you look at theHR-assistant application he has worked on you find some great examples how to use it. Nevertheless that project was too sophisticatedfor me to adapt in my 2hr sample app. My goal was to learn more about couchDb and IBM Cloudant and working with documents &views in general and not (yet) building applications around it.
So this is the result I achieved in my restricted time:
Nothing much sophisticated, but a good learning experience which I would like totake with me in my next “couch” project The code is available in a Github repo .
In a month Frank is holding a presentation at SUTOL concerning using developing with Cloudant so I am looking forward to hear what he has to say and show there
Recently(?) IBM Cloudant on Bluemix has a “Lite” pricing plan which is free with restrictions so it’s developers friendly:
