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

> At 03:44 PM 12/05/2005 +0000, you wrote:
> >--- 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?).
>
> On that side it should work. My query was about the client side - the
> client library - how you would manage to load two different client
> libraries (gds32.dll for InterBase and fbclient.dll for Firebird)

into one

> application...

In the Firebird data module I'd include the IB_FirebirdSession unit
you mentioned earlier and in the Interbase data module I wouldn't.
Assuming that the server engines are not running on the local box and
I'm using cpTCP_IP for a protocol, would a single application be able
to access both clients?

Steve