I started poking around at a driver that uses GDS32.DLL and it didn't look
too bad until I got to the SQLDA stuff. I was going to look at the
possibility of using port 3050, but I am having trouble getting interbase to
compile so I can use the debugger to figure out how the GDS stuff works. I
couldn't find any documentation on the protocol other than the code.



-----Original Message-----
From: David Jencks [mailto:davidjencks@...]
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 9:00 AM
To: IB-Java@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [IB-Java] Re: Dying connections with interclient


Hi,
I think you start by figuring out the Firebird C client to server
communication protocol and writing a java client using it. You can then
figure out how to make the jdbc calls map to Firebird api calls (this is
much of what interserver does). Then you can figure out a way to handle
the DatabaseMetaData stuff (this is most of the rest of what interserver
does).

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