Re: Web cgi tools for Informix 4.10

Billy Wheeler wrote: > > Your subject line and the body of the letter don't necessarily tie > up. If you want Web-specific tools, you will probably want to upgrade > your engine. There are a lot (and I mean a lot!) of options when it > comes to WWW-RDBMS connectivity. Since I seem to have gotten to this > before Tim, you might want to look at Java with JDBC - there are > quite a few options here. > Hmmmm... :-) since you mentioned it, take a spin over to http://www.cafesoft.com and see if this doesn't look interesting. Folks out there in webland are always passing these sites on to me, and you might try the demos out. As much as I like Java, it's just now starting to get good. > At the risk of sounding like a one tune artist on the non-Web side, > you might want to look at NewEra: it can run / develop on Windoze, be > deployed on character environments, you can wrap your ESQL/C > functions into the application, and there is a strightforward, if > tedious and time consuming migration path from 4GL (the syntax of the > two languages is *very* similar). There is also > claimed to be Web deployment in version 3, scheduled for release in > Q1 '97. (They have, IMHO, about a 70% chance of actually implementing > this based on their track record for other aspects of NE to date.) > When they put NewEra on the download site, I will try it again I promise, if I have time. If Informix was REALLY serious about NewEra, wouldn't they give it the same push as their engines and other cool products? I'm beginning to think NewEra was the beast that slipped out of the lab, and now there's a search party out looking for it... :-) Somebody better feed that thing... As for the embedded C: Interestingly enough I put some C-language code right into a Java app created with Visual Cafe. It was compiled virually unchanged, but of course it was some basic calculations, and not a sophisticated data base app. A new book is out: "Java Database Programming With JDBC", ISBN 1-57610-056-1, written by some heavy hitters with ODBC drivers, notably one of the contributors writes for Intersolv. I bought it and have yet to really get into it. It does have a lot of overview that would be good for anyone getting into JDBC. Java does have one thing in common with NewEra--it ain't done yet. Your investment in the core technology should be the emphasis. For example, what you learn with either Java or New Era should allow you to use it with something else. I find more C-specific skill handy with Java, but have yet to build a makefile for it, or see a business app at a corporate site written in Java. The GUI app-builders are legion--so many, and changing rapidly. Javascript is actually getting more use due to the web. An article I read in Computerworld a couple of years ago suggested it takes an average of 5 years to become proficient at a computer software product or language. This suggested knowing the product from end-to-end. Given that, it seems just as 4GL is dying a slow painful death, many of us using it are at the zenith of our skill level...Java is only about a year old, and there is much to learn about it. And we can only really learn about it when business gives us the time and money... :-) > On 12 Dec 96 at 20:04, Jim LOwry wrote: > > > We are currently using 4GL, ESQL, > > VB with ODBC drivers, and C with > > our database using the 4.1 eng. > > We are looking for the > > best of all development worlds. > > > > Could someone suggest a development > > platform where we can not only re-use > > our code but also share the greatest > > number of functions, so we can stop > > making 3 and 4 functions for one task. > -- > Ciao, > > Billy > > I'd be in favour of apathy, but I just couldn't be bothered... -- Tim Schaefer \\\\|// tschaefe@mindspring.com (6 6) ------------------------oOOo---( )---o00o--------- Liberty: http://www.lp.org Informix: http://www.iiug.org --------------------------------------------------