At 06:23 PM 24/07/2007, fabrice.aeschbacher@... wrote:

> > 4. What is the application interface, and how do clients access
>the
> > host device?
>
>Clients do not access to the database. They access to a service we
>have written. This is a multithreaded service; one (and only one)
>thread is connected (only one connection) to the database. We use
>SQLAPI (from www.sqlapi.com), a set of C++ classes encapsulating the
>firebird API.

"Clients" doesn't mean "humans", it means application programs...so
I'll ask this question another way. How does your application's
database thread access the database? i.e., what connection path is
used and how does the program access the server?

./heLen