Re: jdbc

SCO do indeed do one: our JDBC driver comes as part of the latest version of SQL-Retriever (v4). Try looking at: http://www.vision.sco.com/brochure/sqlretriever/ Allan Gould James Cooper wrote: > > [Posted and mailed] > > In article <54quok$7r9@panix3.panix.com>, > snark@panix.com (Glen Acord) writes: > > I'm trying to get information on sources for a jdbc driver for > > informix. I know there's a jdbc-odbc driver. From what I can tell > > this means java -> jdbc -> odbc -> cli -> informix. If we use a jdbc > > for informix it can skip the odbc part (also the odbc drivers we're > > using are giving us trouble). > > Yep, I've been searching for the same solution. Weblogic > (http://www.weblogic.com) is currently developing native method drivers > for Informix. You might ask to be notified when the product goes beta > (they have a nice 30 day free eval program) > > SCO claims to have a similar solution with SQL/Retriever. But I was > unable to get much info about it, or get a working demo to play with. > > Openlink also claims to offer drivers, but I've had no luck getting their > product working. Their support seems a little disorganized, and my email > hasn't been answered. > > I've used Weblogic's jdbc/Kona for Oracle in the past, and it's a solid > product. The company has good customer service, and a clear vision of > where their product fits in. The only complaint I had was with the > t3server itself (that acts as a middleman for applet requests). It had > I/O blocking problems, and would eat 5-6% of my server's CPU when > blocking. I wouldn't be surprised if this had something to do with SGI's > port of the JDK to IRIX. Weblogic claims that this problem hasn't been > reported under Solaris. > > I plan to give Weblogic a try. Please post experiences with other JDBC > products to the newsgroup...I think it would be useful to have a variety > of reviews. > > Cheers, > > -- James > > --------------------- > James Paul Cooper > Organic Online > pixel@organic.com