Re: Database applications in OS X
Re: Database applications in OS X
- Subject: Re: Database applications in OS X
- From: Jason McInnes <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 09:52:09 -0800 (PST)
I've been using the Cocoa MySQL interface available
here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-cocoa
to write a batch application. It's proven very
effective.
jason
--- George Bridgeman <email@hidden> wrote:
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Hi people,
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I'm currently investigating how to write database
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applications on Mac
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OS X, but having great difficulty in finding any
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information. I'll
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explain what I'm trying to do and if anyone can help
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me, that'd be
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grand:
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1. Connect to any type of database (MySQL, Oracle,
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etc) from within a
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Cocoa application written in Objective-C
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2. Use Rendezvous from within the application
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3. Use little (if any) Java
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My questions are thus:
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1. Driver availability is sketchy - Oracle has JDBC
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drivers for OS X
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but no Oracle Client install that I can find. Would
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using the JDBC
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drivers for Oracle require an Oracle installation on
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the same machine?
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2. Is it possible to use Java and Objective-C within
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the same Cocoa
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project (Java for the database interaction,
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Objective-C for Rendezvous
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and everything else, and then call the Java code
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from the Objective-C
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code)
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3. Why is Java frowned upon when it comes to writing
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Cocoa applications
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(slightly off-topic, but I was wondering why this is
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so)?
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4. Is it possible to write Objective-C code to
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connect to a database?
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Which framework(s) would I need to use? Are they
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open source? Does
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Apple have any frameworks to do this? If not, why
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not?
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Sorry this is kind of a long question, but any help
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would be greatly
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appreciated.
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Thanks in advance,
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George.
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