--- In IBObjects@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@t...> wrote:

> At 01:39 PM 12/05/2005 +0000, you wrote:
>
> >Thanks for the reply Helen. It sounds like Jason needs to add a few
> >properties to the TIB_Connection component. My application requires
> >that I create an order in Firebird and then submit the order to an
> >Interbase database. In other words, a single application needs to use
> >both server engines. I think your solution would work but an
> >enhancement to the component that allowed the user to specify the
> >client library and port seems like a better solution. Am I right or
> >have I misunderstood the problem?
>
> I'm not sure whether you do or not....Running two servers isn't

necessarily

> your main problem. Have you thought how you are you going to

connect to

> both servers, each needing its own client library, from a single client
> program? Run two programs beneath some kind of marshaling program,

perhaps?

>

I had assumed that I could setup 2 data modules and two TIB_Connection
components. This should allow me to handle 2 connections to 2
different database servers. If I could specify the port and client
DLL, this should work (or wouldn't it?).

Steve