Tom wrote:
> In any case, part of the presentation involved databases, DB2
> specifically (as
> this was an IBM-sponsoring-Borland event, actually...)  The
> first step was to
> create "a basic database oriented program" using an
> "in-memory" version of
> their database technology.  [this can be "persisted" by writing to and
> reading from XML files, BTW]  Once this was shown as
> "working", he migrated
> the data to a "mysql" database and a DB2 database.  To change
> the program, he litterally did ONE thing: replaced the
> "in-memory-sql-database-provider"
> component with a "generic-sql-provider" component.  Within
> this component, he
> could change the underlying actual database [mysql, DB2,
> oracle, postgresql, interbase, etc]

That's cool.  To move to "Insanely cool", it would be killer to be able to
change one thing and have a different presentation scheme (XHTML+XForms,
Java Swing, VB Forms, VPlus, QCTerm Van Gough, VT220, HP2392,...) AND be
able to write your business logic in ANY programming language!  That's my
idea of an hardware independent interface.  ;-)

Mark "Totally out of control now..." Wonsil

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