Re: Oracle Classes using the OCI?
Re: Oracle Classes using the OCI?
- Subject: Re: Oracle Classes using the OCI?
- From: Michael Sullivan <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 02:20:44 +0900
On Nov 5, 2006, at 01:25 , Jonathan Monroe wrote:
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
Hi Jonathan,
Thanks for your answer.
I'm trying to do some custom software to go against our databases for
input, etc. rather than something for end users. I'd still like to
get ODBC drivers from your company into the hands of our people once
we have a better way of dealing with Excel and Japanese.
In the mean time there's Cocoa. I'm more familiar with C, Perl and
Ruby, and have no real desire to do WebObjects with Java. It also
looks like Cocoa will handle all the language issues for me.
You mention using his ODBCKit doesn't require any additional drivers,
but his documentation implies that some ODBC driver, like yours would
be required. I'm not opposed to shelling out for a license for
myself for doing a bit of development and get my hands dirty with Xcode.
So, is what you say true, no need for ODBC drivers?
ODBC looks like the best way to go using his ODBCkit from the brief
look I had.
Thanks,
Mike
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