From: Sebastian Skracic <sskracic@usa.net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: AOLServer external database driver for InterBase
Date: 19 Mar 1999 22:57:46 GMT
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External database driver 

This driver is implemented as standalone executable. Once started,
it acts as a database proxy daemon which translates AOLServer
database requeste into InterBase specific API calls. AOLServer
communicates with proxy daemon via TCP/IP, so they can be running
on different hosts.

By separating external driver to another host, we can access
databases for which no client library is available on platform
AOLserver runs. An example for this would be InterBase 4.0 running on
Linux host which we want to connect to AOLServer running on Solaris
box. Let's assume that InterBase client library is not available
for Solaris. So we build external db driver on Linux host using
available Linux InterBase client library. Now AOLServer on Solaris
and proxy daemon on Linux can talk to each other using AOLServer's
database-independent external data source protocol.


..... and the bad news:

Development of internal version is abandoned because InterBase client
API is not thread safe. Therefore, if you're still using it, you
are urged to migrate to external version.

..... however:

You can still use the same InterBase datasource and the same C/Tcl
scripts you developed so far.



Current release: 1.0.0
More info:       <URL:http://www.lavsa.com/sskracic/aolinterbase/>


Regards,

Sebastian Skracic







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