Hello

At 02/02/2003 13:09 +0100, Roman Rokytskyy wrote:

>Blas,
>
>I'm cc-ing this email to the Firebird-Java group.
>
>>>
>>> Do you want to kill concept of a managed connection and distributed
>>> tx or just remove interface declaration and add additional proxies?
>>
>> I don't want to kill nothing.
>>
>> For Jeode VM, which is equivalent to 1.1 JDK, we need a version of the
>> driver that don't need javax.resource and javax.sql to run.
>>
>> For J2ME (CDC) the problem is more difficult because it seems that the
>> jdbc libraries that can be included does not implement the whole java.sql.
>
>Not only that. I suspect that we will need to change implementation because
>of really tiny java.lang.* and java.util.* package. No List, no Map, no
>Iterator, no Classloader, etc. BTW, most of it applies JDK 1.1 case too.

Inside the basic jdbc those libraries are only scarcely used.

>> The only solution I know for that is the one I tell you some time ago.
>> Make Connection and two more jdbc classes abstract or interface and
>> implement two connection management solutions over the basic jdbc package,
>> pure JDBC and JCA/Xid.
>
>This does not solve J2ME problem. We will need to change all the code that
>uses Java 2 API and "tricks" like loading resources, date/time routines,
>etc. Too many changes in the driver.

Not used too many times.

>Therefore, it seems to be better to keep the same GDS.java & Co. for all
>platforms, but create completely new set of interfaces/classes that look
>similar to JDBC but do not contain all non-critical stuff required by JDBC.
>Only Connection, Statement, PreparedStatement and ResultSet. Maybe very
>limited DatabaseMetaData. No advanced data types, only those supported by
>CDC java.lang.* package (plus byte[]).
>
>Therefore I'm too pessimistic about making JayBird J2ME- and
>JDK1.1-compatible. But I will support anybody that will take GDS.java and
>implement J2ME-compatible classes on top of it and provide another name to
>this driver.

I'm don't think it is so difficult.

I'll try to compile my version of the driver with J2ME and then we I will now more exactly which changes are needed.

Regards
Blas Rodriguez Somoza