Re: How to detect views w/ JDBC?

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:15:46 -0400, Bob Bunch (OCP) interested us by writing:

>
> Bottom line - please _fully_ read my situation befoe telling me to do
> bunch of Oracle-specific stuff. I would just LOVE it if I could ONLY EVER
> support Oracle - I have 99.9% of my experience w/ this great platform;
> however, this is not my current reality for this particular project. If
> you don't know how to do this, I appreciate your help, but please don't
> just tell me how to do it w/ Oracle-specifics. I already know that. ;)

You're right - I didn't read (just skimmed) the original.

However, I was responding to your dismisal of Jim's comment. The validity of his comment has been proven to me several times as I have seen costs soar by trying to maintain projects that attempt platform independence from bottom up.

Therefore, I still encourage you to use techniques similar to those organizations (such as Oracle) that have experience in being platform agnostic. Rather than compromise to the common denominator, they tend to define define an API and write platform-optimal stuff under that API, either compiled into th distribution or selectable at run time. More work, but also more reliable and flexible, and less expensive, in the long run. And that might be worth while.

But you already know that ...
/Hans Received on Mon Apr 18 2005 - 09:39:05 CDT