Re: WO Newbie Question.
Re: WO Newbie Question.
- Subject: Re: WO Newbie Question.
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:55:17 -0600
Mike wrote on 06/07/2006 11:39:23 PM:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I haven't touched WO in a few years. But I got a problem at
work that
> in my mind just screams for WO D2W. So I managed to convince
my boss
> that it's worth at least a prototype. But he ain't going to
let me
> have
> a Mac just yet, so I'm looking at using 5.2.4 on Windows.
>
> The Apple store lists the system requirements for WO windows dev tools
> as Windows 2000 only. So my question is does the dev tools work
ok on
> WinXP?
We use WO 5.2.4 on WinXP Pro. No serious issues, though
you have to hack your app a small bit to get it to autolaunch in the browser
if you care about that. Sometimes the installer can mess you up, but if
you're careful, it works just fine. Just make sure you shutdown all WO-related
services before running the update installers.
I would definitely recommend using Eclipse/WOLips
instead of Project Builder for Win.
> Also, we're mostly a Sybase shop, but there is one major customer
who
> insists on DB2. Does anyone have experience and/or wisdom on
using WO
> with DB2 on the backend?
We do some work with a DB2 database, but only read-only
fetches. We had to write our own plugin to handle a certain left outer
join and a small bit of DB2-specific functionality that the client wanted.
Once we figured out the outer join issue and wrote the plugin, it works
fine for our limited uses, though installation is a huge pain.
Problems we had were due to the fact that we never
got the pure Java JDBC drivers to work, so we have to install the native
client and run the native JDBC driver (this could entirely be due to the
client's configuration of their DB2 instance, which we have no control
over). The native drivers required a lot of configuration to mess with,
not to mention trying to sort through the documentation for DB2 which is
just overwhelming. And it can be very sensitive to patch levels, so the
client and the server need to be at the same patch levels or weird things
can happen. If you have a DB2 guy that can help you get the drivers installed
and configured, that would probably help a lot.
Logan
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