Re: anyone accessing "h2" java database with DBI?

On 2010-05-05 20:10:47 +0200, Alexander Foken wrote:
> On 05.05.2010 14:24, John Scoles wrote:
>> That is what I would say you would have to go with as I could not find  
>> a C or C++ interface for it on my quick look at the site.  There must  
>> be one someplace though??
> Why should there be a C/C++ interface for a Database written entirely in  
> Java?

For the same reason why you might want a Java interface to a database
written in C: So that you aren't forced to write your applications in
the same language as the database.

In the Unix world, ABIs are typically defined via a C interface: It's
stable, it's compiler-independent, and every language has a way to call
it. So when you have a C interface, you can write your application in
any language you want (including Java). The same is not necessarily true
for other languages (including Java).

Of course for a server you don't need an ABI: You can (and maybe should)
publish the network protocol instead and let people write their own
client libraries.

        hp

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