On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 14:04:48 -0500, Welch, Ronald P (US SSA)
I was just wondering if anyone had played around with Oracle and ROE.
Yes, the VW port has Oracle support, which could be pulled over very easily. The problem is finding a reasonable way to connect to an Oracle database from Squeak. Because the ODBC lib uses FFI, it's synchronous - your whole VM will hang while you wait for the results of a query. What I've done in the past is build a simple Java app that accepts queries on a socket, uses the JDBC driver to get results, and then sends them back, but this isn't terribly performant either. A proper Oracle plugin would be great, if anyone has time or money for one...
Avi