For the benefit of any readers of this list who have been wondering whether to try Andy Bunce's Openshift quick start for BaseX, I have written up some notes on the subject [1] which are a little less terse than Andy's README file and perhaps slightly less forbidding for people (like me) who haven't used OpenShift before.

The short version is: yes, if you have any interest in XQuery-driven Web applications, this is definitely worth trying: very quick to install, very straightforward.

I've also updated my earlier notes on installing BaseX to run under Tomcat in a commercial Java hosting environment [2] to cover Tomcat 7 and BaseX 8.3.1.

As always, my thanks to the BaseX team for the great tool, and to Andy Bunce for the quick-start, without which I would certainly not have been able to understand OpenShift well enough to get BaseX running.

-C. M. Sperberg-McQueen

[1] http://cmsmcq.com/mib/?p=1395 [2] http://cmsmcq.com/mib/?p=1368