Subject RE: [IB-Java] jca-jdbc driver status
Author Paulo Gaspar
What about a download link?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Jencks [mailto:davidjencks@...]
> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 7:13 AM
>
>
> Hi,
> I've committed the current state of the jca-jdbc driver I have
> been working
> on. It features
>
> XA transaction support through jca mechanism of managed
> connections/XAResource
>
> jdbc Datasource support as a front end to the managed connections, through
> a ConnectionManager
>
> a default FBStandAloneConnectionManager to be used in a non managed
> scenario. (this implementation does no connection pooling)
>
> jdbc Connections except for transaction management. Autocommit is not
> supported. Transactions must be managed through an XAResource or
> through a
> (jca) LocalTransaction obtained through
> FBConnection.getLocalTransaction().
>
> jdbc Statements mostly work, except for weirdo features like batched
> updates and multiple result sets.
>
> jdbc PreparedStatements mostly work, except as above.
>
> jdbc ResultSets mostly work for standard types less complicated than blobs
> or dates. More type flexibility could be added.
>
> jdbc ResultSetMetaData mostly works.
>
> In addition there is a simple jmx mbean
> (org.firebirdsql.management.FBManager/FBManagerMBean that can be used in a
> jmx environment or standalone to create and drop databases. Unfortunately
> it only creates dialect 1 databases at this time.
>
> There are some junit tests for much of this. They can be run with the
> build target ./build.sh junit. In order to run them, you will need to
> create a dbsrc directory next to the db directory and create an empty
> dialect 3 db in it called fbmctest.gdb.
>
> I think most of the code is not thread safe. I am not yet an expert on
> thread safety. I am trying to take the point of view of minimum
> synchronization and maximum testing: start with essentially no
> synchronization, add tests to make it fail and add synchronization to fix
> the tests.
>
>
> All comments, suggestions, tests, etc would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> david jencks
>
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