Re: Preferred Application Server

From: nunyo beesness <nunyo_at_beesness.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 20:38:30 GMT
Message-ID: <aVxEe.2234$Fk4.1243@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com>

Bob Jones wrote:
> I am a little confused when you bring Apache into the picture. I don't know
> Paradox. I assume it is a client-server product and you want to convert it
> to web-based applications. How does your Paradox app interact with Apache?
> Do you have any preference as to what programming language to use?
>

Paradox can operate with a db server back end, but it's normally used as a file served database. Imagine each w/s having an instance & each instance touching the same tablespace on a file server.

Paradox's BDE engine writes SQL (poorly). In c/s mode, pdox will "select for update" records into a pdox table on c:, make changes, then post to oracle.

The apache server holds our engineering drawings. Paradox holds the URL for the drawing & pops it up in the user's browser. The Drawing index is very complicated and the URLs are stored in pieces in several fields.

Actually Pdox does this extremely quickly. The time consumers are other functions.

Programming languages- I'm afraid after 11 years, the only language I'm fluent in is ObjectPAL, paradox's native tongue, and HTML/XHTML. I've written tons of Fortran 77, some C, Pascal and Basic but nothing modern.

I'll have to learn whatever I end up with, be it Java or PLSQL or VB or whatever the heck .Net is.

Foster Glascock Received on Sat Jul 23 2005 - 15:38:30 CDT