Gnu-cash with Java

[Linas Vepstas]

To put it in a different way:

There is an informal 'gaurentee' that the engine API will continue
to work & be backwards compatible with older database formats.
There's no such gaurentee with the actual tables themselves. 
In fact, the opposite: there is a special table that deals with
different versions so that gnucash can auto-update to newer
sql db schema when these come into being.

--linas


On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 01:39:03PM -0400, marthter was heard to remark:
> Derek Atkins wrote:
> 
> >marthter <marthter at yahoo.ca> writes:
> > 
> >
> >>I'm guessing here, but if you set up GnuCash with the Postgres
> >>database as the back-end data store, 
[...]

> >> In that case, the bindings idea is
> >>probably better because you could just call the GnuCash functions and
> >>let GnuCash worry about keeping the data internally consistent.
> >>   
> >
> >IMHO, you're better off creating a JNDI interface around the GnuCash
> >API.  The data model is complex enough that accessing the sql database
> >under gnucash is "not supported" because you are very likely to
> >break some of the invariants.
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