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tagging openisis 0.9.0

1 overview of features, platforms and operation modes supported by the
2 the various language bindings
3
4 * dimensions
5
6 The bindings are categorized according to whether they support
7 - client sessions
8 All versions of OpenIsis will (some day) support client sessions.
9 Within the database server, however, they are not used
10 (in order to keep it simple, safe and responsive).
11 Where client sessions are used, one can always use
12 multiple client sessions to connect to several servers.
13 multiple sessions from one IP to the same server
14 may or may not be allowed by the server.
15 - multiple threads
16 This is useful only where multiple users are served,
17 i.e. in the server and within a Java Servlet Engine.
18 Multithreaded database access also requires the use
19 of server sessions.
20 - asynchronous operation
21 This is useful only for applications build around an event loop,
22 actually the server and the Tcl/Tk GUI.
23 Of course any asynchronous connection can be easily used synchronous.
24 Asynchronous processing is supported only on a communication channel,
25 i.e. when accessing a remote database.
26 - charset support
27 While any version of OpenIsis will handle any ASCII compatible encoding
28 (including UTF-8) transparently, only Tcl and Java have built-in support
29 for converting charsets.
30
31
32 * tabular overview
33
34 Here, "openisis" denotes the command line utility
35 and server is the openisis server process.
36
37 | *system* | *client* | *threads* | *async* | *charsets* |
38 | Perl | yes | no | no | no |
39 | Java | yes | yes | no | yes |
40 | Tcl/Tk | yes | no | yes | yes |
41 | openisis | yes | no | no | planned |
42 | C-API | yes | yes | yes | planned |
43 | server | no | yes | yes | planned |
44
45
46 * notes
47
48 - The Tcl/Tk binding (and thus, of course, the C-API)
49 is the only one actively supported for windows.
50 While Perl and Java should work, we won't bother.
51 - Where a Tcl/Tk GUI wishes to operate asynchronously
52 on a local database, it should start a server process.
53 - Neither Perl nor Tcl are meant to be used in a multiuser environment.
54
55 ---
56 $Id: Bindings.txt,v 1.3 2003/06/02 09:54:14 kripke Exp $

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