Re: Accessing PostgreSQL from Cocoa apps
Re: Accessing PostgreSQL from Cocoa apps
- Subject: Re: Accessing PostgreSQL from Cocoa apps
- From: Max J Cantor <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 15:02:11 -0400 (EDT)
The reason that I used the Java bridge is that the mysql C libs are
non-standard, where as the JDBC is an established standard. Since I use
the JDBC driver I can easily support other databases.
-Max
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Finlay Dobbie wrote:
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Why would you want to use that? Wrap up the C API! The java bridge is,
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from what I hear, incredibly slow.
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-- Finlay
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On Monday, June 11, 2001, at 04:49 pm, Max J Cantor wrote:
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> My advice would be to use the java-bridge to use to the JDBC postres
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> driver. I use this system in my front end for mySQL, source to be
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> posted
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> soon, and it works beautifully. I get a bunch of compiler warnings as I
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> can't really make header files for my java-classes, but aside from that,
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> its perfect.
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> In my opinion, this demonstrates on of cocoa's greatest strengths - the
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> ability to transparently use java code/classes in your apps. This gives
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> Cocoa an amazing variety of libraries which Apple could not duplicate on
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> their own.