[Seaside] state of the aubergine

Cees de Groot cg@cdegroot.com
22 Apr 2002 23:17:36 +0200


Avi Bryant <avi@beta4.com> said:
>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.
>
I think that you should be able to access PostgreSQL and MySQL from Squeak
(IIRC, there's a Squeak driver for MySQL and the VW PostgreSQL driver has been
ported). Both are probably direct socket interfaces.

Oracle and Sybase would probably be relatively easy as well with FFI.
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