Re: web access to application partitions - possible?

In article <33E1D563.8FC99577@mindspring.com>, Tim Schaefer <tschaefe@mindspring.com> wrote: >bernie ryan wrote: >> >> i'd be interested in hearing from anyone with thoughts on / experience >> with having web clients utilise new era application partitions. > >The direction seems to be, at least based on what I saw at the Informix >conference,and the Object World conference, Java. Correct, though not quite the way you're thinking. NewEra 3.1 includes additions to the partitioning wizard that will allow you to generate Java stubs which will communicate with NewEra application servers. We demonstrated this at the user's conference in the NewEra booth. Come to think of it, NewEra 3.0 lets you generate COM stubs, so I suppose you could also use ActiveX controls to get to NewEra app servers. I don't know if anyone's tried it though. >In terms of using >New Era, the new Data Director for Java is heavily laced with New Era. Umm.. not really. The 1.x versions of Data Director for Java do reuse much of the NewEra Window Painter, but only for short-term practicality. At the time we were developing DDJ, the JavaBeans spec wasn't ready, meaning that we couldn't just plug our components into any old Java IDE. Reusing the NewEra Window Painter let us get the product out. From 2.0 onward, all of our components will be JavaBeans, and DDJ will rely on the form painter included with whatever JDE you are using (initially, of course, we'll be best integrated with Symantec's Visual Cafe Pro). DDJ did bring the SuperTable idea along, but most people consider SuperTable's features to be a good thing (though they may disagree with certain parts of the design). These features will continue forward in future versions of DDJ, though we expect to make them more modular, flexible, and powerful. >You can have and end-to-end solution in Java. Between DDJ, JOI, and Java in the Server (plus a few as-yet unannounced goodies), that's exactly what we intend to enable. >Maybe DDJ is New Era's replacement. Absolutely not. The Data Director products represent a broadening of our tools strategy, not an abandonment of NewEra. As you read this, Informix continues to develop and enhance the NewEra product. Mind you, I haven't talked to Paula this week, so I don't know if you've managed to convince her to shrink-wrap it yet... -- Eric ------------- Eric McDermid Principal Software Engineer, Java Development Tools Informix Software Inc. (posting via a personal account)