Re: Database Application with Obj-C
Re: Database Application with Obj-C
- Subject: Re: Database Application with Obj-C
- From: Kim Friesen <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 09:36:25 -0600
This topic seems to come up consistently. I'm curious as to why EOF or
SQL Libraries are the first things to be discussed.
Is it because of Legacy databases that people want to connect to?
External reporting tools ? Interoperability ? I'm not sure that for a
new standalone or relatively small multiuser application that I would
like to have an unnecessary binding between my model objects and a
relational schema unless it buys me something significant.
Are there other viable options ? i.e. Object databases ? XML
databases ?
What about something like ZODB ?
On 22-Dec-03, at 1:02 PM, Ian McGregor wrote:
I know this topic has been brought up in many forms on this lists, but
I wish to bring it up yet again as I have personally reached a point
in developing an application (commercial) which could really use some
built in cocoa db support. It is not the type of application which
could single out power users, who would necessarily know how to
install a db server. Nor would I expect them to go and buy a database
application or install one, just to use my little cocoa app. Something
already in Cocoa would have been nice. Archiving an array of
dictionaries does not seem like the ultimate answer to writing
data-based applications in Objective-C.
I am aware of some of the wrappers some good folk have put together
for db's such as MySQL, and this is really good work! However, I am
quite surprised (please correct me if I am wrong), that Panther has
not included any new API or support for some kind of built-in db
functionality (or the EOF from Web Objects I have been reading about).
Am I right, is there still nothing built into cocoa for this?
PS. I don't use Real Basic for development, but I must admit they have
added a valentina db or something which seems to allow developers to
get around this prob.
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