Re: web access to application partitions - possible?

In article <33E2BAA4.2CC6AC2D@mindspring.com>, Tim Schaefer <tschaefe@mindspring.com> wrote: > >Just kidding! Don't get me wrong, I didn't really see any banners for >New Era, and so didn't think about looking for it. > >But think about this: let's say I didn't make it to the conference. My >chances of seeing New Era 3.x are less than having a close encounter >with >aliens from another planet. I could expect to see a UFO before I'd see >New Era 3.x. Yep, the labeling of the NewEra stations in the Informix booth left a lot to be desired. A couple of enterprising engineers eventually added some more descriptive banners later in the conference, but I can see how you might have missed them. At any rate, my comment about showing NewEra 3.1 running with a Java front-end was really targeted to let people know that such a product exists and is real (or at least will be sometime in the next few weeks). I didn't mean to suggest you weren't keeping your eyes open. > >> 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. >> > >Hmmm... interesting. So this would mean a Visual Basic or Visual C++ >client app communicating with New Era on the server. Yes. In fact, the intent is to let _any_ COM-enabled client communicate with a NewEra application server. However, I've done a little more thinking about my suggestion of using ActiveX controls to communicate over the web. While it is theoretically possible, the generated OLE proxy uses on standard Informix connectivity libraries, so there are probably a few technical challenges to be solved w.r.t. connectivity setup. I'll pass this along to the NewEra development team, so that they can look into it for a future NewEra release. >So are you going to have a special edition of Visual Cafe Pro from >Informix and Symantec have their own version for those that do not >want Informix? Two separate versions? DDJ 2.x is centered on JavaBeans, so you should be able to use DDJ components in any Java IDE that supports beans. My understanding is that Data Director for Java 2.0 will ship as a standard part of the Visual Cafe Pro package from Symantec (then again, I'm just an engineer, so I don't always know the latest bundling plans). I think the expectation is that Informix will also sell the same bundled package. However, you'll also be able to get just the DDJ package from Informix, in case you want to use it with a different Java IDE. Initially, the big difference between DDJ bundled with Visual Cafe Pro and DDJ with another Java IDE will be smoother integration above the JAvaBeans level. For instance, DDJ will be able to make use of hooks in the development environment itself (such as detecting save/restore of projects, addition of new packages, etc.) to make development a little more seamless. -- Eric ------------- Eric McDermid Principal Software Engineer, Java Development Tools Informix Software, Inc. (posting from a personal account)