squeak to meet databases
Kamil Kukura
kamk at volny.cz
Thu Aug 5 15:04:24 UTC 2004
Hi,
I would like to first point out that I don't intent to compare here
databases like relational vs. object ones. It's all about getting squeak
and ubiquitous world of relational databases together.
When trying to attract web developers from environments such as PHP, ASP
or JSP, I'm badly missing a thing to show as how Squeak deals with
external databases. Perhaps best way to connect to any DB is to use ODBC
which scares me as it relies on FFI
<http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/2424>
.NET people have ADO, Perl/Ruby builds on DBI, Javists rely on JDBC, "C"
hard workers stick to ODBC and PHPers go almost native though they also
have something: http://adodb.sourceforge.net/
So I'm thinking what would be nice to have to show up with more
databases Squeak can natively talk to. Right now I consider to do some
work on "SqDBC". At first, it would be a package containing ODBC and
ODBCEnh as its default database driver. Then I would like to "grow up"
PostgreSQL package in the way it would become SqDBC driver (and upgrade
it to protocol 3 as well). Then add some connection pooling to SqDBC.
I know it looks quite "javish" as their JDBC but I don't know if is
there better "natural" approach.
--
Kamil Kukura
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