Hi again Ron.
Ron Teitelbaum wrote:
Simon,
Thanks for the response. The VA (US Veterans Administration) uses Caché for their medical record system and I would like to attach squeak to that system.
Nice to know that there's a large-scale organisation like that using Caché - you guys will carry considerable clout for getting them to change things if needed :)
It really concerns me that you are having this problem with ODBC on Linux. Have you considered their XML interface, or do you think that would be way to slow?
I must confess I didn't know there was an XML interface. However, I suspect that it may be a reasonable way to go given a fast enough link between the client and server machines, and fast enough client and server hardware. Of course I have no quantifiable metrics for this, but now you've mentioned this interface I'll probably take a look at it.
I was hoping to add support by extending their projection classes to generate Smalltalk objects, and to connect up using ODBC. I’m glad you mentioned this problem, since I’m running on windows, and I wouldn’t have discovered this problem until later while trying to run this on linux.
Glad to have been of help :)
I would love to see squeak drivers, have you contacted them about the specs?
I haven't yet asked them about their specs directly. I've dropped a few hints in support emails but they've either missed them or ignored them - hopefully not the latter as that would indicate that they don't want to give them up. Still, that's nothing but guesswork and I just hadn't got around to asking them properly yet - so many other things on the go at the moment. However if there are two clients asking for the same thing, it would hopefully mean they'd be willing to cooperate; I can't really see why they wouldn't want us to add to the range of interfaces to Caché.
Cheers, Simon
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