Re: C++ and Oracle access

Laurent,

        You have several alternatives:

         dbTools.h++ is a very good class library, plenty of documentation & samples etc. I've used this on AIX but not Windows. If you are going to do a lot of GUI development on NT then you might want to use dbTools.h++ with Objective Studio from Stingray Software. Stingray is owned by RogueWave and the two products are supposed to work very well together.

        For NT clients connecting to Oracle Servers, we've used MFC/DAO classes in Visual C++. Again this is a very large full featured class library that will meet almost all client/server database access needs.

        For component that needed to run both on NT and AIX servers we used Oracle Pro*C++. This is part of the Oracle Programmer 2000 package. This allows you to write embedded SQL within your source code which is then converted to C++ by the Oracle precompiler. This method produces the fastest code of all these products, also you can use all of Oracle features directly and you will be able to use very similar code on NT and AIX without much rewriting. However this is the least OO product and I've always found the sequenceof coding-precompling-compiling Received on Tue Mar 23 1999 - 23:42:35 CET