Bill,

> I notice there are many components for writing applications for firebird,

but

> most of them are for window only and more often for Delphi. There are

Linux

> admin tools but you can not write applications using them.
>
> But it appears firebird is also widely installed under linux/unix. I am

curious

> how applications are written for linux/firebird. Do they use embedded sql

or

> call isc_ api directly? Or use jdbc? or just as a remote database server
> listening to tcp/ip ports?

Often, Firebird runs on Linux, but Windows client applications are using
it via a network.

As for programming for Linux, Kylix can do it (eg: via dbExpress or ODBC),
any Java-application via JDBC can do it...

Martijn Tonies
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