Weblogic Enterprise has supported true distributed txns over
heterogenous database platforms for quite awhile now. I don't
see it as unreasonable to expect use of a given driver especially
if you bundle that driver with your distribution.
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>Subject: Re: Transactions, Connection Pooling and legacy databases
>Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 09:29:43 -0600
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> >> Realy, i have no idea why App Servers don't support Connection Polling
>to
> >> all databases? (at less its the case of Websphere wich supports CP to
> >> Sybase, DB2 and Oracle)
> >> I have also no idea how can i manage transactions in the case i have
>other
> >> databases ?
> >
> >This is a limitation of WebSphere. Sybase EAServer supports connection
> >pooling to any JDBC accessable resource.
>Remember, that last sentence was a Sybase developer... 8-)
>
>I hesitate to respond, because I don't use websphere,
>but instead work on plumbing underneath it.
>
>Based on my discussion with the websphere team,
>I'm pretty sure this is just a support statement from
>Websphere.
>When I asked them, they thought it should work and
>the first question was 'What driver are you using?'
>
>Websphere has been tested fully on those databases, therefore,
>those are the ones that are officially supported, remember
>Websphere does a lot of SQL on its own, and some gets generated.
>
>Some of it must change for different databases, and in some
>cases special SQL must be used. If your DB doesn't support
>this, OR we didn't test it, the JDBC driver doesn't really
>matter, Websphere market drones probably won't let us
>say that Websphere supports that particular DB.
>
>That's how our support statements work.
>
>In my experience:
>Other vendors may say they support it, when you try
>to run it with JDBC driver xyz that doesn't work exactly right,
>they will say, oh, that won't work, its the drivers fault.
>
>IBM is conservative that way, and we try to test everything
>we say we support, when technically it may work anyway.
>
>
>
>
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