As soon as I started to play with Aptana Jaxer, I saw an interesting opportunity to port the Google Gears Database API (note the Gears in the logo!)

If I could use the same API for both client and server side database access, then I can be enabled to do things like:

• Use one API, and have the system do a sync from local to remote databases
• If the user has JavaScript, use a local database, else do the work remotely
• Share higher level database libraries and ORMs such as Gears DBLib for use on server side data too

I quickly built a prototype to see if this would all work.

The Jaxer shim [...]