Simon,
I finally reached the people at Caché and discussed integration with them. They are working on putting together a group of people to discuss the possibility of integration and are planning on a call later next week. They understand our interest in exploring writing drivers and possibly doing projection classes to generate Smalltalk objects similar to their work in Java.
They are also discussing integration with squeak and VistA for my company.
I will keep you informed on my progress, but if you would like to join in the conversations please let me know.
Ron Teitelbaum President / Principal Software Engineer US Medical Record Specialists Ron@USMedRec.com
-----Original Message----- From: squeak-dev-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:squeak-dev- bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Simon Kirk Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 7:28 AM To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list Subject: Re: Caché Database System Integration With Squeak
Hi again Ron.
Ron Teitelbaum wrote:
Simon,
Thanks for the response. The VA (US Veterans Administration) uses Caché
for
their medical record system and I would like to attach squeak to that system.
Nice to know that there's a large-scale organisation like that using Caché - you guys will carry considerable clout for getting them to change things if needed :)
It really concerns me that you are having this problem with ODBC on
Linux.
Have you considered their XML interface, or do you think that would be
way
to slow?
I must confess I didn't know there was an XML interface. However, I suspect that it may be a reasonable way to go given a fast enough link between the client and server machines, and fast enough client and server hardware. Of course I have no quantifiable metrics for this, but now you've mentioned this interface I'll probably take a look at it.
I was hoping to add support by extending their projection classes to generate Smalltalk objects, and to connect up using ODBC. Im glad you mentioned this problem, since Im running on windows, and I wouldnt have discovered this problem until later while trying to run this on linux.
Glad to have been of help :)
I would love to see squeak drivers, have you contacted them about the
specs?
I haven't yet asked them about their specs directly. I've dropped a few hints in support emails but they've either missed them or ignored them - hopefully not the latter as that would indicate that they don't want to give them up. Still, that's nothing but guesswork and I just hadn't got around to asking them properly yet - so many other things on the go at the moment. However if there are two clients asking for the same thing, it would hopefully mean they'd be willing to cooperate; I can't really see why they wouldn't want us to add to the range of interfaces to Caché.
Cheers, Simon
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