Hi Murat,

I'm using Firebird with Tomcat to run several JSP based web applications on
a Solaris 8 server. Firebird is not a problem. What problems I do have
come from the Tomcat side, but Firebird is very stable and fast. Are you
using Struts? I'm using Tomcat with SSL, single sign-in, Form based
authentication, and JayBird with JayBird's connection pooling.

If you want to be able to pull Firebird out and drop Oracle or another SQL
database in, just stay away from some of the special features Firebird has.

I took a web based application that was running a Java based SQL database
and replaced it with Firebird and it ran perfectly. It was also 3 to 4
times faster, much more in some areas. All I had to do was build the tables
and start it up.

I have not used non-English characters so I can't help you there.

Rick

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>
> I am going to develop a java based(JSP-Servlet) huge student base
> automation system.On a MVC framework with tomcat and a database.I
> first think about mysql but I see that there is no Turkish language
> support with its jdbc driver.I have used older versions of interbase
> and it has got some bugs I have noticed.I have to print Turkish
> character to database and index them and use them.I wont develop a
> database depedent on any RDMS I like to swich it when there will be a
> possiblity of a malfuctioning so I like to ask you that if I use
> firebird as my database system and use it for only basic storing
> fuctions will I have a regret on that?.if not is there any free
> database better?
>
> I am using a sun-solaris 2.8 machine with sparc cpu...
>
> Murat YILMAZ
>
> Middle East Technical University
>
> Research Asistant.
>

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