Begining of Java Servlet Inteface

[Rodrigo Moya]

On 14 May 2001 15:31:21 -0500, Christopher Browne wrote:
> > On 14 May 2001 11:32:23 -0400, Chris Shenton wrote:
> > > cbbrowne@hex.net writes:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > I would suggest the thought that "multiuser" be considered completely
> > > > synonymous with "using SQL DBMS."  The database provides an interface
> > > > that supports many concurrent connections; that supports multiple
> > > > users without needing to think very much about it.
> > > 
> > > Need to ensure the code to access the DB uses some kind of
> > > database-neutral API layer so we don't get locked into
> > > <insert your favorite DB>.  Would be nice if it could talk to MySQL,
> > > Postgres, Oracle, or whatever the user/customer has. 
> > > 
> > may I suggest you to use libgda, the data access layer used in the gnome-db
> > project (http://www.gnome-db.org)? It contains a nice library which
> > provides the database-neutral layer you're talking about, and currently,
> > PostgreSQL, MySQL, ODBC, Oracle, Sybase, TDS (for Sybase and MS SQL
> > Server) are supported, as well as an embedded DB system (distributed by
> > default with libgda) which uses gdbm as the backend, but which supports
> > a subset of SQL, and, more important, allows the creation of tables with
> > more than one field (that is, no limitation to key-value pairs as in
> > gdbm and Berkeley DB.
> > 
> > It is still missing some things, but we're working on adding them,
> > specially the support for XML queries, which will allow clients to send
> > commands to any DB backend in a portable way. This will provide a 100%
> > DB-independent layer.
> > 
> > ok, enough publicity, but, well, I think you might want have a look at
> > it.
> 
> That's probably a good choice if we're talking about code written in C as part 
> of GnuCash.
> 
> But the context at present is that of "Servlets" written in Java; I somehow 
> doubt that gnome-db has been set up for use with Java Servlets as of yet.  
ok, I wasn't following the discussion, I just saw the message, and I
didn't realize the context in which this was being discussed. So, my
apologies

> Furthermore, it would seem more sensible to look to JDBC as the 
> interoperability library for Java, as that's rather more widely deployed in 
> the "Java world."
> 
yes, seems more reasonable.

cheers, and sorry again :-)

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