Re: How can access to the database with ODBC

mark kaplun wrote:
> "Antonio Carlos Rodriguez" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> 
>>My name is Antonio Carlos Rodríguez Vergara, from the Seville
>>University at Spain,
> 
> 
> Do you have a short name like all the brazilian football players ;-) ?
> 
> 
>>and I'm trying to make a applicattion over Mozilla
>>which must run in windows. I'm interested in database access, because
>>when you put some widgets, such as trees or listboxes, its data is often
>>coded in a common database structure (Oracle, Access, Sql
>>server,MySql... etc). I have managed RDF and templates, and it looks
>>good for it, but I have two problems:
>>
>>  * How could I use the database (from ODBC or a concrete format) as a RDF
>>  datasource to use it with templates?
> 
> 
> You will need to write an XPCOM component which will serve as a "bridge"
> between mozilla RDF API and ODBC API. The complexity of this component will
> probably depend on how flexible is your DB (i.e. can you assume fix users,
> fixed tables, ...).
> 
> 
>>OR How could I use connected ODBC
>>  database directly in XUL, forgetting RDF?
>>
> 
> 
> This will require writting an XPCOM commponent which expose the ODBC
> interface as an XPCOM interface, then you will be able to manipulate the GUI
> via the DOM interfaces.
> 
> 
>>  * If at last I can use a database as a RDF Datasource, where could I
>>  find (real) useful information to manage complex RDF dataformats in XUL?
>>
> 
> 
> What do you consider as complex? IMHO there are enough examples in the
> mozilla source code.
> 
> 
>>  I am very interested in the second point. Please, help me.I need a
>>  component XPCOM to access to thedatabases which work in Windows. Because
>>  my proyect must run in Windows with a only machine(local machine). In
>>  this machine must have Mozilla and the database. This is a very
>>  important question, because I need information about the exposed later
>>  to end my studies. Thank you.
>>
> 
> 
> I know that there were several people which "promised" to write an XPCOM
> ODBC component, but to the best of my knowledge none of them had delivered
> anything by now :(
> 
> Good luck,
>   Mark.
> 
> 

Hello friend.

Can you say some direction where find information? This is very 
important. I need a component to work on a database in Windows.

Than you.