Re: Database Applications
Re: Database Applications
- Subject: Re: Database Applications
- From: Steven Woodward <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 18:30:05 -0400
Gibbons,
Many thanks for the reply. I think you may be right about there being a
reason for Apple not including EOF with Cocoa. If there is that's fine,
they have a business to run! I just have to weed through the various
sqls out there and pick the best one for my needs. I plan on taking a
look at FrontBase and MySQL for starters.
Steve W
On Monday, May 27, 2002, at 05:06 PM, Gibbons Burke wrote:
At 10:20 AM -0400 5/27/02, Steven Woodward wrote:
I've read about EOF, have no direct knowledge of it, it really sounds
like something that would be very useful...The development work I do
is probably 80% database oriented. I am looking at some of the open
source SQL variants out there but you're right, it would sure be nice
to have a built-in technology, especially if it exists and is simply
being held back!
For background on EOF (Enterprise Objects Framework) here is an
excellent article at MacTech describing EOF and its development from
NeXTStep's dbKit, with a bit of historical context on the development
of Objective C and NeXT thrown in along the way. It makes for an
interesting and enlightening read:
<http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.16/16.05/WebObjects4Everyone/
>
Archiving collection objects is no substitute for a database - if Apple
had a database engine that abstracted database access issues using
standard objects, with drivers (adapters) for individual database
back-ends, they'd really have something kick-ass with which they could
kick some ass. I can't imagine they don't realize this; there must be
bigger political sensitivities (with Oracle, for example) why this
capability is no longer included, or technical hurdles they don't want
to have to meet and support.
Earlier in this thread, there was discussion of accessing MySQL
databases from Cocoa and I remembered seeing on versiontracker.com that
someone had written CocoaSQL - a Cocoa-based MySQL table browser, with
source code included:
<http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=10887&db=mac>
CocoaSQL's developer's home page:
<http://homepage.mac.com/mxcantor/>
Cheers,
--
Gibbons Burke
Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to
us and so rich and astonishing that we never tire of it. If we do tire
of it, if we lose our curiosity, we have lost something of infinite
value, because to a high degree it is curiosity that gives meaning and
savour to life. [Robertson Davies]
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