Jason, I've just heard that JDBC is very quirky, and I'm way more familiar with ODBC. But I'll give it a try. One advantage I guess is that it's a good way to communicate with Filemaker. And I'm mostly doing this on a development machine, so speed under load is not that essential.
John -----Original Message----- From: Jason Pamental [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 5:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: odbc on mac os x [mini-rant] John, Is there a reason you want to use ODBC rather than JDBC? That is extremely easy to set up, and drivers can be had for most DB engines pretty readily (and for free to boot). I don't have any speed comparisons, but I haven't heard a lot of complaints about it either. Jason On Apr 27, 2004, at 7:02 PM, John Newsom wrote: > Hi, I have looked extensively over the archive, and also tracked the > conversations about this topic (including the disagreements over what > works!), and also looked in the documentation, both the installation > guide for the 5.5 studio, (feb 2004 - where there is a brief paragraph) > and the server 5.x install (aug 2002). Is there anyplace with a clear, > functional, step by step guide for getting the studio and server > working > on OS X. I realize that with each successive release of the OS, and > the > moving target of Apple's support for iODBC, and the various industry > efforts, that keeping something like this up to date is difficult. But > I did have all the pieces working (using an old product from The > Kompany > that was an implementation of unixODBC), but since Panther I more or > less just gave up, hoping that with the release of 5.5 studio there > would be a clear installation and troubeshooting guide. I don't relish > spending another 8-10 hours getting every thing working again by trial > and error. > > I also wonder if there is anything in the works that implements > something like the PHP - MySQL calls, or the FX PHP class that works > with the Filemaker XML import/export API's. > > Or should I just go blast Apple for not providing a solid database > architecture on OSX? Windows is sooooo much easier in this area, and I > am a MAC zealot from way back. > > End of rant. > > Sorry. > > John Newsom > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Garcia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 11:52 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Witango-Talk: Java Bean Docs > > > I have installed the trial version of the new dev studio, but I still > don't see any documentation for Beans. I know how to build them, and > use them in my project, and deploy, that is not the issue. The issue is > that I have read in old pervasive docs, that there are built in classes > that help with a cleaner interface to and from the bean. Like passing a > witango array to the bean, rather than passing some type of string, or > xml to be parsed by the bean. > > Is there any documentation anywhere for this? I thought this was going > to be supplied with 5.5. I may be missing something, so if anyone > knows, please inform me. > > -- > > Robert Garcia > President - BigHead Technology > VP Application Development - eventpix.com > 5910 Clark Rd Suite G > Paradise, Ca 95969 > ph: 530.645.4040 x222 fax: 530.645.4040 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://bighead.net/ - http://eventpix.com/ - http://theradmac.com/ > > _______________________________________________________________________ > _ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > > -- ____________________________________________________________________ Jason Pamental, President [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bathysphere Digital Media Services, Inc. http://bathyspheredms.com ____________________________________________________________________ Tel: 401.490.6830 Fax: 401.490.6831 ________________________________________ A North American Distributor for Witango (http://www.witango.us) Rapid Web Application Development - XML Execution Engine ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
