Appendix A. Working with Repositories
Spoon allows you to store your transformations and jobs under two different configurations: file-based and database repository. In contrast to the file-based configuration that keeps the transformations and jobs in XML format as *.ktr and *.kjb files in the local filesystem, the database repository configuration keeps the same information in tables in a relational database.
Although working with the file-based system is simple and practical, the database repository method can be convenient in some situations.
The following is a list of some of the distinctive repository features:
- Repositories implement security. In order to work with a repository, you need credentials.
- Repositories are, by their nature, prepared for basic team development. The elements you create (transformations, jobs, database connections, and so on) are shared by all the repository users as soon as you create them.
- The Enterprise Repository is a Java content repository...
