The ObjectSpark page (which I finally got to) appears, amid the typical
marketing obfuscation, to indicate that one connectivity option is jdbc.
In this case, the jca-jdbc driver should offer sufficient xa support. (if
they are as backward as most vendors, we would have to wrap the modern jca
interfaces with nearly identical-except-for-exceptions
XADataSource/XAConnection wrappers.)

david jencks

On 2001.10.29 15:34:09 -0500 Paul Reeves wrote:
> Dominique Louis wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> > I have been looking at a great tool called ObjectSpark (
> > http://www.objectspark.com/ ), which works with SQL Server and Oracle,
> > and having spoken with it's developers I was told that they do not
> > support InterBase ( and I assume FireBird ) because you cannot select
> > across multiple databases ( I think it is something called XA
>
> What makes ObjectSpark so special that cross-database selects are a major
> criterion for server support?
>
> > compatability ). It this the right place to ask if and when this sort
> of
> > functionality will be addressed, not just so it would work with this
> > tool but also as it would be a good feature to have?
>
> This is the place to discuss features and the grand design behind them.
> Feel
> free to present a proposal explaining how cross-database selects should
> work.
> Once that hurdle is crossed it is over to Firebird-devel where developers
> discuss the nitty gritty of writing the code.
> Having said that, the real challenge is probably finding someone with the
> interest and the time to implement a feature. As with software
> development
> generally a lot is down to someone wanting something enough to actually
> pay
> for it, either with their time or their money. Which leads me to the
> question
> - What is the business case for this feature? Can a similar result be
> achieved
> in another way?
>
>
> Paul
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> Paul Reeves
> http://www.ibphoenix.com
> taking InterBase further
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