[Seaside] state of the aubergine

Avi Bryant avi@beta4.com
Sun, 21 Apr 2002 13:23:18 -0700 (PDT)


On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Kamil Kukura wrote:

> The database (object or relation) support in Squeak is quite
> primitive. I feel some simple generic layer for implementing database
> drivers is really missing.

Yes, what I've done instead is stolen an existing generic layer.  I keep a
small java app running that accepts socket connections from squeak and
forwards database queries through JDBC drivers; this lets me generically
access Oracle, Postgres, etc, at a slight performance penalty.

A pure squeak solution would be preferable, of course.