Re: Web Intergration Option -- worth it?

This stuff was cutting edge when it came out as the Illustra Web DataBlade a few years ago but it's hardly developed at all. The logical next step would be to reimplement it as an XML engine -- the tags are roughly XML (SGML) compatible -- but Informix hasn't given any hint that I've seen that they've even thought of doing so. Seth Gareth Edwards wrote: > > bmcgin@bellatlantic.net (Brian McGinity) wrote: > > >Does anyone know anything about the Web Integration Option that is > >available for the Dynamic Server NT 7.3? > > Don't know about the NT version, or the speed hit of using ODBC. > However, I can tell you that I find the web blade designer > interface to be the suckiest, and the process of building > applications to be a very long-winded task - you basically embed > the few meta-tags that the 'blade offers into a web page that > is stored in the database. > The data director is a joke, it's basically a very simple text > editor with a few wizards bolted on - I'd rather use UltraEdit > instead. > The whole thing is extrememly out-of-data when compared to the > likes of Tango or SilverStream - they are REAL rapid application > development tools. > > Love & Life, > > G. > -- > coming soon... SPONG -- Seth Grimes Alta Plana database & Web / design & development grimes@altaplana.com http://altaplana.com 301-891-2581 grimes@access.digex.net http://www.access.digex.net/~grimes