If all your clients are on Windows, I would take out
GLADE from the middle and access the databases using a
binding to ADO and/or RDO (see
http://www.adapower.com/com). They were designed with
conserving network resources in mind in particular
over the net.
David Botton
--- "Dale Jr, William" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> We are moving into the Win NT world ( kicking and
> screaming) because we
> need a database and Access is all we can get. I
> know Dave Botton is
> working on COM/DCOM tools for NT.
>
> Is there a free API for the ACCESS Database run-time
> Engine? We are looking
> at building a Glade server on the NT system which
> other (client) Ada code
> will talk to get data from the Access database.
> This replaces a flat data
> file system that we have outgrown.
>
> Anyone been down this path?
>
>
> ====//====
> "The difference between hardware and software is
> that the more you play
> with hardware, the more likely you are to break it,
> but the more you play
> with software the more likely you are to FIX it."
> ====//====
>
> Bill Dale , LMMS
> mailto:[log in to unmask]
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>
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