Hi Phil,

> > We are thinking about using Firebird in the course of Reengineering
> > our inhouse Intranet/Internet, which currently uses Oracle as backend.
> >
> > Well, what are they main technologies to use Firebird in an
> > Intranet/Internet based application?
> >
> > - Jaybird
> > - PHP
> > - what else ?
>
> Perl, Python, .Net, ASP/Com stuff

Well, .NET might be another possibility, due to the Firebird .NET
provider.

Any docs, references as a starting point for using Firebird with
Perl, Python?

> > We have a pretty deep knowledge about implementing Java based
> > multi-tier web applications and therefore Jaybird might be the
> > most interesting candidate. Are there any web-applications out
> > there, which already uses the native JDBC Type 4 driver Jaybird?
>
> We have a couple of inhouse intranet systems that currently use interclient
> and FB, which 'ported' to Jaybird. For legal reasons we are not allowed to
> uses beta/RC software for our customers, but as soon Jaybird reaches
> 'release' stage, we would have no problems in using it.

What Interclient version are you using? Can't remember if there is an
open-source version available.

> > Are there already any known good results with Jaybird using
> > Apache and a specific (open-source) application server?
>
> Works very well with Jboss. The only issue we have come accross is if you
> are letting JBoss create the database metadata during deploy time, you tend
> to get the infamous 'Object in use' error, but thats a FB issue.

Yes, I know.


Thank you,
Thomas.