Re: Web Application : ActiveX vs Java

Siripa Sapsirin wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > We are going to develop web application accessing Informix database. I > have to decide between ActiveX and Java. Is there any suggestion about > them? We concern about performance, maintenance and openness. > > Thank you so much, > Siripa we are using a WEB-Gateway from Siemens Germany called DB4Web. take a look at http://www.siemens.de/db4web It is one of the fastest gateways for web-applications with scalable architecture. It's also possible to deal with ORACLE, INGRES... and so on with native drivers (High Performance) even for on web-page. So you can read(write) data from different data sources. Nested SQL from/to different databases is possible. On NT You have of course the possibility to connect via ODBC to a lot of differente data sources. -- Alfons.Zimmermann@t-online.de D-91054 Erlangen Germany