RE: [U2] universe sockets

2009-04-13 Thread Glen Batchelor
> -Original Message- > From: owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:owner-u2- > us...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of doug chanco > Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 6:14 PM > To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > Subject: Re: [U2] universe sockets > > Wow great points . see below for my

Re: [U2] universe sockets

2009-04-13 Thread Bill Haskett
Doug: I'll pipe in here to make just a few points. One, in the MV world you can't do much better than use off-the-shelf components for U2 (i.e. UniObjects). If you need more then use mv.NET, or mess around with IBM's version of mv.NET. mv.NET is a great product! Secondly, it is

Re: [U2] universe sockets

2009-04-13 Thread doug chanco
Interesting points, I will certainly share your "Stop looking at the sale price man! " quote with them. I appreciate everyone concern about reinventing the wheel/you'll never do it right/its a nightmare/it will be next to impossible to maintain/it cost more to reinvent the wheel than use a cu

RE: [U2] universe sockets

2009-04-13 Thread Symeon Breen
> We want to explore other connection options that are not tied to > uniobjects so that if we decide to switch from universe to say database > "x" we can do so easier. My only comment on this is don't go writing socket code just for this - just write a wrapper round the uniobjects code - so you

RE: [U2] universe sockets

2009-04-13 Thread phil walker
Maybe someone could put an example of this on the U2ug website, or Brian could include it in his training materials if he has not already so that people have an idea how to accomplish this ;-). > -Original Message- > From: owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:owner-u2- > us...@listse

RE: [U2] universe sockets

2009-04-13 Thread Tony G
Warning to sensitive readers - as well as providing other on-topic information, in this posting I mention a product that I sell, and will offer services. *good grief* > > Sage words from: Symeon Breen > > My only comment on this is don't go writing socket > > code just for this - just write a wra

RE: [U2] universe sockets

2009-04-13 Thread doug chanco
I hope so, because I would like to develop an in house iphone app that our users can use to query our database for prices/quantity available and sadly Apple only allows socket access to the closed iphone OS. If anyone has a pick server socket solution they would like to share I'd appriciate it (a

RE: [U2] universe sockets

2009-04-13 Thread phil walker
Sorry I was not clear enough. I was agreeing with Symeon, about the use of classes to encapsulate the BLL from the DAL? Mind you, you could use sockets in the DAL if you must ;-). > -Original Message- > From: owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:owner-u2- > us...@listserver.u2ug.org]

RE: [U2] universe sockets

2009-04-13 Thread Tony G
> From: doug chanco > ...I would like to develop an in house iphone app that > our users can use to query our database for > prices/quantity available and sadly Apple only allows > socket access to the closed iphone OS. Use a web service from Objective C, which is relatively easy with iPhone.

RE: [U2] universe sockets

2009-04-13 Thread Ross Ferris
Why not just provide this via a browser? This is what we did when our clients turned up the day after they had lined up until midnight to buy their latest wonder toy at midnight. They were here @ 10am, and had a working prototype by midday and of course this "application" will also work on, sa