Oh good those feather pillows did not die in vain. Serious Note: We need a good blam function somewhere on the forum. My neighbours think I am crazy - but they don't know that I have a trampoline. All they see my head bobbing up and down over the fence every five seconds

To say that OR mapping is the only purpose of EJBs is way off the mark, but a common misconception among those who haven't used them. In fact, there are two main types of EJBs: session beans and entity beans (there are now message-driven beans as well). Entity beans are the things that map (usually) to a database or any other persistence mechanism. There are two types of mapping strategies used for entity beans: CMP, for Container Managed Persistence, and BMP, versus Bean Managed Persistence. It's the former that's used in drag-and-drop and automated mapping tools, while the latter is used these days mostly for finer control over persistence logic (it came before CMP). Session beans are the ones that tend to contain business logic. The closest thing to session beans in .NET are COM+ services that you write yourself, but COM+ is a poorer technology for this use than session beans. Why? Because EJB servers contain things like automatic clustering support, portability between servers/OSes, etc. not supported by COM+, together with a much better programming model. Microsoft keeps calling Windows server OSes 'application servers' even though they don't compete well with actual application server software on features or performance. It's like this: EJBs make it possible to write a true distributed object. The EJB server takes care of all application servers, clustering, transactions, etc. To write distributed programs in .NET, I've seen many people wind up depending on locking and clustering in the database instead, then write Web services or other components that call the database directly. This is a much different approach. I've seen lots of articles that talk about 'layers' of this and that in .NET, but it's the lack of actual middle-tier services in .NET that seems to differentiate the two platforms the most. Does this mean that .NET sucks? Nope. It just means that to write an application that does the same thing as a J2EE app, you have to approach it in a different way, putting more of your scalability-related design approach into the database (and sometimes more of your business logic). I believe that it's also true (as is supported by many third-party studies) that J2EE applications scale to a higher total limit before replication strategies must be employed. But this doesn't matter AT ALL to most companies, since the great bulk of business applications don't have to support really gigantic processing loads. ObjectSpaces sounds like it is comparable to things like JDO (Java Data Obje

MS do, but with a twist. If you buy the right version of Visual products, you can ship MSDE with your product. Granted, this is a cut-down version, since there are no GUI management tools (but hey, that's what OSQL is for...). You get a developer version which is just like the boxed SQL Server, and then a runtime engine. If your app goes bigger, you can have your client upgrade to full SQL Server with no changes. Serious MS developers have MSDN, of course :) and those who aren't serious soon lose their sense of fun. Steve S

ISDN provides 2 lines for telephony. That´s why get charged for every connection. Some ISDN-Vendors have the feature of "channel bundeling" to use both channels. You save time but get for both charged. ->The result is that you better check wheter the gets enough data transfered. Try this @ home. (B&B)

askadar wrote: PS: I work for that company :laugh: Nothing like a bit of self-promotion, huh? ;P Ryan Being little and getting pushed around by big guys all my life I guess I compensate by pushing electrons and holes around. What a bully I am, but I do enjoy making subatomic particles hop at my bidding - Roger Wright (2nd April 2003, The Lounge) Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late - John Nichol "Point Of Impact"

http://www.compona.com/WikiEngine/WikiPageViewer.ascx?ID=46 you can use our free .net maskedit.. //Roger

When you installed a fresh Oracle 8i with a default Database (bad idea, it's configured poorly) you can either log on as 'system' pwd 'manager' or 'sys' pwd 'change_on_install'. Both are DBAs dirk

Don't think you can. A dedicated line is expensive. But think of the alternative. Something like Slammer kicks off on the net, and your VPN is affected. Your systems at the branch office may need to peform some kind of scheduled job, transmitting data between the two sites, but as the internet is knocked out with increased packet loss its affects the business. Now if the company has its own dedicated leased line not on the internet, while users will have difficulty accessing the net, the internal LAN/WAN still works fine. The business would not be impacted to such a great extent. Quote from a clever bloke : "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein

when u insert these controls in your project,a dialog appear. there is a button on that dialog named "More Info". click on it. u get the help

Megan Forbes wrote: But this is still probably not as interesting as what your bank do online. My bank just added something new. Where formerly it just displayed the check numbers that had cleared, as of last week there is an icon on each line that displays an image of the actual check! No more waiting for 10 days (and paying $3) to get a paper copy... We've come a long way from the 300 baud, text-based "online banking" of the early '80s!:-D As to accounting, I believe that Quickbooks sells an online accounting service, including payroll services, that users can subscribe to. That's an idea that makes me nervous, sending all my financial info over the web and entrusting strangers to keep it private.:suss: But the technology is certainly capable, and quite appropriate for accounting applications. Nobody wants to read a diary by someone who has not seen the shadow of Bubba on the prison shower wall in front of them! Paul Watson, on BLOGS and privacy - 1/16/2003

I don't know how good it is, but Oracle's Small Business Suite[^] is web-based and supports accounting as well as inventory, CRM, etc. It is provided by NetLedger.[^]. Sean Winstead

Because banks don't want to run mission critical systems on Windows, nor any open source thingy. I did 2 projects for banks, and both were on Solaris, and both involved Oracle databases. Michel It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time to say anything in it, because we do not say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a very long time to say, and to listen to. - TreeBeard

Oracle is CRAP. I have, with ADO.NET and C#, written a better client tool in a week than comes with Oracle. Storing large records is a NIGHTMARE ( you need to chunk them in and you can't have trailing spaces, they get truncated ), etc, etc, etc. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002

.NET Server is basically a server version of Windows XP. That might be what you heard about -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!

Jon Hulatt wrote: MySQL does now support transactions. I checked it some months ago and I didn't read the new release descriptions. I'm sorry for the wrong information I gave. I think that the problem with benchmarks and with database benchmarks in particular is that they are focused on a specific issue and sometime you will find yourself with the DB that is the fastest doing something you don't need :) I think that both oracle and ms have benchmarks showing that their DB is the fastest DB running on a x86 platform and IBM did the same with its DB2... -- Looking for a new screen-saver? Try FOYD: http://digilander.iol.it/FOYD

What version of Windows/IE do you have? Microsoft has a script debugger but depending on your config it may or may not be enabled by default. Just remember that you won't be able to use server objects all that well when debugging client code. Jeremy Falcon Imputek "C# is the answer to a question nobody asked." - Chris Losinger