There’s work a-perking on JDBC for IMAGE HP engineer Mike Yawn, the Java/iX coding machine inside CSY, was asking what 3000 customers need in a JDBC tool not long ago on the Internet. JDBC is Java Database Connectivity middleware, a key to letting Java applications use information from databases like IMAGE, kind of an ODBC for programs written in Java. While Java applications are just now beginning to emerge from customers and solution suppliers, tying IMAGE data to the applications with tools like JDBC might help ramp up the use of the cross-platform language on the HP 3000. Yawn suggested that an MPE/iX JDBC solution might provide client-server access to existing databases as well as enable in house development of new applications and an ability to run off-the-shelf Java applications. Yawn said he was “putting together a business justification for the investment required to bring this technology to MPE.” JDBC is going to have one problem to overcome if it sticks to current designs – overhead, since it flows through ODBC gateways. Copyright 1998 The 3000 NewsWire. All rights reserved