Re: Oracle Classes using the OCI?
Re: Oracle Classes using the OCI?
- Subject: Re: Oracle Classes using the OCI?
- From: Jonathan Monroe <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 10:25:59 -0600
On Nov 4, 2006, at 6:57 AM, Ted Thibodeau Jr wrote:
On Nov 3, 2006, at 9:24 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote:
I'd like to do development using the Oracle OCI libraries to link
in with my Objective-C applications. I find it very hard to
believe that no one has written any examples of this, or a class
library similar to the Oracle OCCI (C++) classes. Especially given
the number of hits on resumes my Google queries get.
ODBC?
It's a free development environment, and doesn't leave your
application
bound to Oracle (unless you really want it that way).
iODBC is part of the Mac OS X default environment, though the Cocoa
Frameworks were left out of what Apple ships -- their choice, please
complain to Apple about the lack! -- they *are* available at no cost
in the form of the pre-compiled iODBC SDK download from OpenLink, or
you can even build them yourself following the instructions found
at iODBC.org.
For Cocoa development, I recommend Andy Satori's open source (BSD)
ODBCKit:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/odbckit
One nice thing about ODBCKit is that it uses the ODBC libraries that
Apple ships with Mac OS X, which work great - the additional third
party iODBC frameworks don't have to be present. Apple's libraries
are superior to the iODBC frameworks because they always look for DSN
configuration files in the same place. The iODBC frameworks look for
the files in 5 different places, and the default location where it
writes the files seems to change from one release to the next. This
makes an iODBC framework-based application more difficult to support
in the field than one based on Apple's ODBC libraries.
Jonathan Monroe
Actual Technologies - ODBC for Mac OS X
http://www.actualtechnologies.com
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