Re: Has anyone used CORBA & Informix?

We are doing almost the exact same thing (Informix on AIX, CORBA/Java on NT for tier2 (will be deployed on AIX though) and Win95, NT & Macintosh for tier1. We are past the mock-up stage and are almost ready to deliver the first version to the trainers. We are using Visigenic's ORB (Inprise, formally Borland, bought out Visigenic). Partha Dutta wrote: > > Chris, > > I am currently managing a project which utilizes CORBA w/ Informix. We have > clients running a legacy program on SCO UNIX. They currently use Faircom's > C-TREE database (ISAM based). They want to make the system more open, and > communicate with any backend they choose. We are using Java & Corba for the > server components, and linking in C/C++ for the client stubs. We have a > mock prototype, and the CORBA/Java solution works great. > > Partha Dutta > pdutta@itms.com > > Chris Kerslake wrote in message ... > >I am working on a project which has Win95 clients, Informix on AIX and have > >been asked to develop a 'middleware' solution to interface the two. > > > >Originally I was asked to use Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) and found > >out that there is no driver available for MTS! The drivers that exist > right > >now for IDS 7.x do not work properly under MTS. This has thus led me to > >look for other solutions... namely using a CORBA solution (my original > >choice anyway). I have been unable to get any information from Informix... > >Has anyone successfully built anything using CORBA and an Informix server? > > > >- Chris > >kerslake@home.com > > > >