At 14:58 04/10/2003 +0400, BSS main wrote:

>JDK 1.1.8 is more difficult. The main absent feature Jaybird depends
>on is Java Collections Framework. It can be downloaded here:
><http://java.sun.com/products/javabeans/infobus/#COLLECTIONS>http://java.sun.com/products/javabeans/infobus/#COLLECTIONS
>
>But package names for classes are different so to make it build you'll
>need to write a kind of SED script or program that will replace
>package names with their 1.1 equivalents.

This isn't too much of a problem. My IDE does global search and replaces.

>Another problem is different JDBC API's in this versions. So if you
>need some JDBC 2/3 features implemented in Jaybird, but not found in
>JDK 1.1 you'll have to create wrappers for them (just like Oracle JDBC
>driver does).

They're not really needed for this project.

>I'd say to create clean port of Jaybird for Mac OS 9 is a matter of
>a few days of work. So everything depends on your interest in it.
>Are you ready to do this work yourself or pay someone to do it ?

If the Interclient one is unworkable, I'll probably give this a go.

John


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