On 26 Jan 2002, at 23:00, Helen Borrie wrote:

> The big problem with service components is that the so-called
> "Services API" which they support is itself a big mess. Opinions vary
> as to whether it should be fixed or just left to rot. The

From what I have seen of the services API, it's probably better to
let it rot, most of what it does, could probably be accomplished
with "global" stored procedures (stored procedures that are
available to all databases), or plain SQL statements.

Although the idea of "global" stored procedures is infinitely more
flexible, because it means one new statement or a change to the
EXECUTE statement, rather then a bunch of new SQL statements,
or worse a new batch of API calls. I may post ideas for this on fb-
devel.

Paul

Paul Schmidt
Tricat Technologies
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