Not to deep at all. IBO Productivity Bundle has a service app base class
which makes it pretty trivial to use. It is a separate process that runs as
a service just as InterBase itself does.

Regards,
Jason Wharton
CPS - Mesa AZ
http://www.ibobjects.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "stevefields37075" <fields24@...>
To: <IBObjects@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 7:25 PM
Subject: Re: [IBO] Surfacing Interbase UID and GID in AlterUser


> --- In IBObjects@y..., "Jason Wharton" <jwharton@i...> wrote:
>
> > I prefer to have a service app that watches a table in the database
> a user
> > does have permissions to modify and then the service app performs
> the
> > operations necessary to carry out those options. By running as a
> service
> > app, it is on the same secured machine as the database server is. It
> can
> > have the SYSDBA password embedded in it with much less concern. The
> end user
> > can only change data in the table so things are secure.
> >
>
> At the risk of running this thread too far, do
> you mean in a client/server sort of way service?
> I have not gone that deep into developing the
> apps that I do develope. I have mostly been writing
> them on a _single user to single database_ way
> without any background programs running other
> than Interbase, on the server of course.
> Could you give me any further basic ideas of how
> you write your service routine.
> (private e-mail if you think it will go too deep)
>
> Thanks immensely,
> Steve Fields