Re: OOP/OOD Philosophy

On 15 Jul 2005 09:44:49 -0700, "frebe"
<fredrik_bertilsson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> How long does it take to write an ODBC driver?
>
>I don't know about ODBC, but for JDBC it is very simple. It's a number
>of interfaces that you have to implement. Using Eclipse, it is done in
>less than an hour. Once you have done a JDBC that wrapps the real
>driver, you can easily inject your exception throwing code. The key
>things is that you only have to implement your driver once (if you
>don't find anyone who did it before), not for every application.
>
>Making wrapping JDBC drivers is also an excellt way to overcome
>differences between database vendors.

I don't know a lot about writing a JDBC driver. Do you have to parse
SQL? Or does the JDBC front-end do that for you?


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