Re: [stellation-res] Firebird

["Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm very much in favor of using the newer version. Realistically, we'll
have to migrate to it eventually, and it sounds like it has advanced
functionality that we'd like to be able to use, so we might as well
bite the bullet and just do it now.

	-Mark


On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 19:21, Jonathan Gossage wrote:
> I have been working on getting Firebird going under Windows. Unlike Dave, I
> have been using the newer version of Firebird. I have been testing with the
> "super" version of Firebird 1.0.2 and have been using their type 4 JDBC
> driver called JayBird. The "super" version is a pure client/server version
> as opposed to the "classic" version which is a direct-connect architecture
> with some shared capability and optional remote connection support.
> 
> The new Java driver is a full JCA/JDBC type 4 driver that is fully supported
> by the development community, as opposed to the Interclient driver which is
> no longer being enhanced or supported. The new driver is simpler to install
> than the Interclient driver and provides advanced services such as
> connection pooling and a direct interface for database creation and deletion
> that does not require a dummy database to connect to.
> 
> I believe that we should decide whether to go with the older technology or
> with the newer technology. There are a number of differences between the the
> two products and from what I can see the newer technology should scale much
> better. If we want to, we could choose to support both technologies but I
> can't see a compelling reason to do so.
> 
> I am in a position to do the work required for Firebird using the new
> technology, both on Linux and on Windows since I now have a Linux box as
> well as my Windows machine. However, I think we should come to a consensus
> before I do any more work in this area.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Jonathan
> 
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