Sure. For those using the DB on Win32 access through ADO and those on real
OSes use GLADE. You should also be able to minimize the code needed to
support both methods since you can just expose a DB abstraction using the
same spec and body just distribute with GLADE where needed. Please keep us
posted on how it works out.

I plan on having future versions of COMCreate and BindCOM generate a GLADE
distributable binding to COM objects. This would give you the ability to
Bind to a COM/DCOM object and use it either locally on Windows machines or
remotely on non-Windows machines. It may be a couple of months until I get
a version out that does this, but it is on the books.

David Botton


On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Dale Jr, William wrote:

> No,
> not all will be on Windoze, many will be on Sun or
> SGI systems at least at first.
>
> Can we do both?
>
> > ----------
> > From:       David Botton
> >
> > 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]
> > > mailto:[log in to unmask]
> > >
> >
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