Hi,
i have no datasource for interbase, since i am using only bean managed
persistence, but i can tell you some things. The current JDBC driver for
Interbase (Interclient) does not support Interbases "dialect 3". This means:
you can connect to "dialect 3" databases, but some features will not be
availiable. The most important are:
LONG INTEGER (64 Bit) database fields does not work. The mapping of a java
long to a 32Bit INTEGER or a DOUBLE PRECISION or even a textfield works.
For date/time values you should use a TIMESTAMP field in Interbase, which
maps perfectly to a java timestamp with the "old" JDBC driver. The other
date/time types do not work.
All the rest seems to work fine (blobs, etc.) and the performance seems very
good (though i did not test really huge databases by now). In the
documentation of IB6 (the PDF files, dont remember where is the link) there
is a "Getting Started", which describes these migration issues from IB4/5 to
6.
Regards,
Jens Stutte
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Von: Duffey, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Gesendet am: Montag, 23. Oktober 2000 21:41
An: Orion-Interest
Betreff: Interbase datasource??
Does anyone happen to have an Interbase 6 datasource that I can get ahold
of? The old manuals I have for IB4 don't have anything about the types and
what they map to in Java. I want to start playing around with entity beans,
but until I get a mapping I don't think I can do this.
Thanks.
