Re: A question on Informix JDBC driver

> >This makes sense to me - I wouldn't want to have my user/password in > >clear text in my code, or developers needing to know it. Even if it's in > >the properties file. > > > >Problem is, going oover straight TCP, how do you do all that stuff in > >Java, and identify yourself to the remote db host? It seems to fit more > >in the java model to do it with the way that they're doing it. > > > > 4GL, ESQL/C does this. As I understand the server in this case > use rcmd authentication. What's the difference between socket > communications between a JAVA program and a ESQL/C program ? > How would Java use rcmd for remote commands/authentication? As far as I can guess there are two issues here: The difference between sockets in Java and ESQL/C = nothing and the difference between rcmd in Java and ESQL/C = there is no rcmd for Java. There are no environment variables in Java. I don't know what the protocol would be, but I'm assuming that there's some lower level stuff going on with ESQL/C on the client side that isn't done with Java. > Best Regards, > Octav > > >Octav Chiriac (com@netinfo-moldova.com) wrote: > > > > > >: Hello, > > > >: I have downloaded the Informix JDBC Type 4 driver from Intraware. > >: I have just started testing. > > > >: My question is about specifing connection URL. > >: Is there any way to connect to database server without > >: specifying USER and PASSWORD in connection string, so that driver (server) > >: will use standard UNIX authentication (as in 4GL, ISQL, DBAccess). > > > >: Thank You, > >: Octav > > > >: -- > >: Octav Chiriac Phone: (373) 2 21 20 96 > >: NetInfo S.R.L. Fax: (373) 2 21 20 96 > >: Chisinau (373) 2 24 00 83 > >: Moldova, Republic of mailto:com@netinfo-moldova.com > > > >-- > >***************************************************************** > >* Wyan H. Jow * > >* "I remember how, in college I got that part-time job as a * > >* circus clown and the children would laugh and laugh at me. * > >* I vowed, then and there, that I would get revenge." * > >* - Jack Handey * > >***************************************************************** > > -- > Octav Chiriac Phone: (373) 2 21 20 96 > NetInfo S.R.L. Fax: (373) 2 21 20 96 > Chisinau (373) 2 24 00 83 > Moldova, Republic of mailto:com@netinfo-moldova.com >