Any EJB server can handle this, but the file IO is up to you using
java.io.*.
You need to use bean managed persistence if this will be an entity bean. If
it's a session bean you'll need to do bean managed transaction, or tx not
supported...
-Chris.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Srikanth Hari [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 4:04 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Text/Flat-file Databases
>
> Hi:
>
> I would like to apologize if this Topic(or something similar)
> has already been discussed in this forum.
>
> One of the major software programs that we run is something called
> "Blast".
> This is a program that is run through a Unix command line interface and
> takes two parameters, an input string sequence(a text
> file) and a search Database. The Database in this case is a flat-file
> or just comma-delimited text. The Database(s) contain gene sequences
> identified by Scientists at various locations including NIH.
>
> The program then compares the sequence that is fed in with the target
> Database (which can be several at one time). If there is a perfect
> match, the program returns a text file with the Database name and the
> record against which there was a perfect match. If not, the program
> returns another text file that identifies the Mismatches and Missing
> Values in Strings that were compared.
>
> The problem Users face at this time is having to go back to generate the
> sequence if they need to look at the result of a match(saving an output
> file separately does not give a clear perspective to the user and
> because of the volume of such runs would generate an unholy number of
> files).
>
> Can an EJB model address this problem?
> Can the Containers of Vendors such as Weblogic deal with a Flat-file
> database in any form?
> Are there any other suggestions to address this problem?
>
> Any insight would help tremendously.
>
> Many thanks.
>
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