Re: web access to application partitions - possible?

bernie ryan wrote: > > i'd be interested in hearing from anyone with thoughts on / experience > with having web clients utilise new era application partitions. > > -- > From: bernie ryan | "When an eel lunges out > email: bernie.ryan@deetya.gov.au | and it bites off your snout > Ph: 0411-466 665 Fax: 06-288 5992 | that's a moray .. " (bc comics) OK, for the "thoughts" side of your question: The direction seems to be, at least based on what I saw at the Informix conference,and the Object World conference, Java. In terms of using New Era, the new Data Director for Java is heavily laced with New Era. It has I imagine much of what New Era has, the supertable thing, and other NewEra-isms. Much of the docs are New Era. Not having the latest New Era I can only imagine the similarities. :-) As much as I detest New Era, I'm staying reasonably open-minded about DDJ, for the simple fact that it's Java-based. In terms of partitioning apps Java appears to be superior to traditional Windows apps in a two-tiered world, simply because of the server-side Java availability. You can have and end-to-end solution in Java. Maybe DDJ is New Era's replacement. But that's just my speculation. :-) Corba is also coming to life only because of Java. This introduces the middle-ware component, and three-tier schemes. Get the latest DATABASE magazine. Many of the articles are extremely timely in this regard. It may be that Java is going to be the intranet solution for a lot of businesses. But for internet apps the network will have to get better. App partitioning in this sense could still mean server-side Java to go with the internet app on the client. And moving to NCs would be that much easier when the occasion arises. -- Tim Schaefer \\\\|// tschaefe@mindspring.com 6 6 --------------------oOOo---( )---o00o--------- http://www.inxutil.com ==============================================