Hello, Our XML Gateway product will perform all the T table/C column translations for you and allow you to access data many times faster than you'll ever acheive through Remedy. In fact, I hear the guys at eBay are doing precisely so. While I think the writing of data is a little more tricky (only because it requires more thought), it's still entirely possible.
Of course, any ODBC/JDBC driver can access Remedy data but the T table/C column prefixes make life far more complex. Writing: SELECT a.C1, b.C2, c.C341 FROM T141 a, T581 b, T185 c WHERE b.C2=c.C341 is far more effort than: SELECT "Change ID+", "Type, "Item", FROM "CHG:Change" etc. For selecting data rapidly when you've got a lot of data, using Remedy isn't entirely sensible. Something like an AJAX 'search as I type' feature on a website just isn't going to happen if you can't query the database directly. Which is why one of our customers is busy performing AJAX based searches against an XML Gateway that's querying a Remedy database directly (albeit a copy). John Baker Java System Solutions : http://www.javasystemsolutions.com _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are"
