Le dim 05/10/2003 à 09:24, Monte Goulding a écrit :
> > Le dim 05/10/2003 à 05:43, Monte Goulding a écrit :
> > > > On Saturday, October 4, 2003, at 06:02  PM, Todd Geist wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > There is a FileMaker Pro plug-in which can connect to any database
> > > > > that has
> > > > > JDBC access.  I have used this plug-in to retrieve data 
> > from and edit
> > > > > data
> > > > > on Firebird, MySQL, and Postgres servers.  There was very little
> > > > > difference
> > > > > in the code, and it was very fast. (Why am I using 
> > FileMaker?  That's
> > > > > another story).
> > > > >
> > > > > FileMaker's plug-in API is C/C++, not Java.  So the 
> > developers of the
> > > > > plug-in had to write some kind of C/C++ wrapper around the 
> > java code.
> > > > > I was
> > > > > imagining that some clever Rev Nut could do the same thing for
> > > > > Revolution.
> > > > >
> > > > > Maybe as others have pointed out there is no need.
> > > >
> > > > Todd, that's a new one one me!
> > > >
> > > > I'm all for any method to get the bountiful world of JDBC drivers can
> > > > be opened up to us. Certainly better than dealing with ODBC, on Win32
> > > > platforms.
> > > >
> > > 
> > > This is a very interesting idea. Personally I'd go for expanding the
> > > external API to include Java. JDBC would be an advantage 
> > considering there's
> > > a JDBC dirver for almost every DB but think of the 
> > possibilities that RMI
> > > would bring. We could all get fat writing Rev clients to J2EE 
> > systems ;-)
> > > 
> > > Cheers
> > > 
> > > Monte
> > 
> > Yes, Yes, Yes. Even if Rev don't really need Java to connect RDBMS, it
> > could be a good marketing way to help and let J2EE developers come to
> > Revolution, in discovering and loving it's elegance and simplicity :-)
> > 
> I imagine the combination of Sun's 'write once, run anywhere' marketing and the fact 
> that Rev actually delivers on it would be quite a good combination ;-)
> 
> To be quite honest I think this is an area that Rev could clean up. Java GUI's 
> (swing or not) are crap and dog slow. J2EE clients could be developed in VB but that 
> rules out cross platform clients. 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Monte
> 

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