Re: CORBA to replace ODBC

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On 16 Jan 2001 10:49:21 +1100, James Chin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've written a Visual C++ program that accesses a database (MS access,
> postgres and mysql) through ODBC.
> 
> Would it be possible to port this app to use Orbit as the middleware instead
> of ODBC?  Does Orbit support any type of query processing to enable me to do
> this?
> Any pointers to documentation on how to do this would be greatly
> appreciated.
> 
this is exactly what gnome-db does (http://www.gnome-db.org). It is similar

to ODBC, but entirely based on CORBA.

There are some missing things in gnome-db though for total CORBA
integration, which is, for example, support for the database query CORBA
service, but those things are planned.

Ah! BTW, although the project is called gnome-db, the data access
framework (which is called libgda) is totally GNOME-independent.

cheers