We use Filemaker 8 quite a bit. The production department at our paper uses
it for a number of things. Any data that we need for our website I grab out
of Filemaker using and store it on our SQL Server db.
JDBC support is pretty good. I don't know how it will hold up in terms of
high load performance. We have generally not more than a handful of users
accessing the server at once. When we did use it for a conference
registration app last year we ran into some bottlenecks, though my IT guys
claim it was a network problem, not Filemaker.
I've pasted below the instructions I found sometime ago on how to set this
up so you can add Filemaker DSNs in the CF Admin.
Rick
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In Filemaker
FMpro database needs to be open!
Enable ODBC/JDBC sharing in FMpro.
Create a Username/password for coldfusion in your database.
Install the JDBC drvier from the FM CD - run the .jar file from the CD,
it's an installer which will prompt for an install location, create and
choose ~/desktop/newfolder/
and when the installer is finished copy the contents of
~/desktop/newfolder/driver/lib/ (sljc.jar and sljcne.rar) to your CF7 /lib/
folder
In Coldfusion:
create a data source using 'other' as the driver type.
JDBC URL= 'jdbc:sequelink://127.0.0.1:2399;serverdatasource=test'
Driver class= com.ddtek.jdbc.sequelink.SequeLinkDriver
Driver name= whatever you want, 'FM Pro' or something
User Name= the user you created earlier in your FM database
Password= the pass for the FM user you made.
Submit, and then verify - you should get a lovely understated little 'OK' in
status
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 6:10 PM, cfcom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does any one have any experience using CF with Filemaker... good, bad, etc
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