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Re: Porting C++ App to Oracle

From: Questioner <james_pannozzi_at_cisgi.com>
Date: 8 Sep 2004 11:10:54 -0700
Message-ID: <11a3fa8.0409081010.6c05883b@posting.google.com>


Hans Forbrich <forbrich_at_yahoo.net> wrote in message news:<zYr%c.155627$X12.11337_at_edtnps84>...
> Bottom line - Oracle does not provide any replacement for MFC. However, two
> of Oracle's tools can be used to provide an OS-independant form: Oracle
> Forms and Oracle JDeveloper.
>
> JDeveloper is heavily Java oriented, so that is of limited interest to you.
> It is, however, the most reasonable alternative - Java and C++ are kissing
> cousins and the MFC equivalent is Swing.
>
> DLL is a Microsoft-ism. In the *nix world, the equivalent is .so (shared
> object). Oracle does not communicate with any third-party DLLs, your code
> would do that. Bluntly, you are barking up a dead tree here.
>
> What you really seem to want, and what Oracle can provide, is an alternative
> to your serialization - you currently serialize to binary file, and that
> can be replaced with ODBC-style output to database instead. Oracle's
> strength lies in what can be done with the data once it has been stored.
>
> To proceed, you would be best off reading Oracle's Concepts manual. Without
> that background you will continue asking the wrong questions ad ill go
> nowhere in the Oracle track. The manual is at http://docs.oracle.com
>
> The link I sugested is OTN.oracle.com (not ont) OTN = Oracle Tech Net

I will read that Oracle Concepts Manual that was suggested and try to get more specific knowledge of Oracle options and capabilities.

It almost seems like I would be better off retaining the C++ user interface
and just communicating with Oracle from the C++ app somehow (or else using a C++ class, if one exists, that knows how to save in Oracle format, to save the records into the database) but I will be surer once
reading is done.

Thanks
Jim Received on Wed Sep 08 2004 - 13:10:54 CDT

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