Re: [INTERFACES] postgresODBC and Symantec dbAnywhere/Visual Cafe, broken?

Matthew Hagerty wrote:

> David,
>
> That worked... I'm not sure how usefull it will be though. Now when I
> select the "plus" next to the contacts table, it lists the fields like this:
>
> 4
> INTEGER
> 15
> -blank-
> 0
> 0
> 0
> -blank-
> -blank-
> -blank-
> -blank-
>

This may be a bug in the driver. Every once and a while when we throw a new
application a the driver we find some imperfections in its implementation. This
is our first attempt at dbAnywhere. I am sure we can straighten this out, but we
are backed up right now.

> When I select one of these items, all its properties are ghosted out. Then
> again, I'm not sure how it would look with say, Oracle or some other
> database. Do these RAD tools really increase a programmers development
> time, or just change what he/she spends most of his/her time working on?
> Visual Cafe and JBuilder seem like a large amount of money to only be able
> to paint the GUI, or are biased to large RDBMSes that cost mega bucks and
> only run on UN*X systems that cost just as much. What are you using for
> RAD Java apps?

Much of what you are experiencing is one time start-up cost. For you this is a
new database and a new IDE. For us, this is the first time with dbAnywhere.
These problems will work themselves out; future dbAnywhere users will hopefully
benefit from your experience.

To your question "What are you using for RAD Java apps?" VB5 :-)