[squeak-dev] Re: Threaded ODBC

Klaus D. Witzel klaus.witzel at cobss.com
Sat May 10 18:27:28 UTC 2008


On Sat, 10 May 2008 20:06:22 +0200, Igor Stasenko wrote:

> 2008/5/10 Rob Rothwell wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I was just wondering if anyone knew what work would be required to  
>> provide a
>> threaded ODBC connection in Squeak similar to what is available for
>> VisualWorks or Smalltalk/X.  The ability to not freeze the VM while  
>> running
>> a query would be very useful for me, but I don't even know where to  
>> start.
>>
>> Or, is it a bigger issue than just ODBC, something buried deep within  
>> the VM
>> and/or the FFI?
>>
>
> Someone could make a plugin, which will call ODBC from separate native
> thread, without blocking VM thread and blocking only  caller Process.
> It can be even me :)
>
> Also see an GSoC OpenDBX project, not taken by anyone, but i seen
> someone recently started to code initial bindings to it.
> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6036
> Who is it? Please raise the hand! :)

Did you mean

- http://www.squeaksource.com/SqueakDBX.html

/Klaus

>> Thanks,
>>
>> Rob
>>
>
>





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