Fwd: [JIRA] Commented: (CAY-808) FoxPro adapter

From: Andrus Adamchik (andru..bjectstyle.org)
Date: Thu Oct 18 2007 - 11:08:18 EDT

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    Can somebody tell me what's involved in setting up a FoxPro test
    environment these days? After doing a SQLite adapter, I am almost
    encouraged to look into this one too.

    Andrus

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    > From: "Thomas Bernhard (JIRA)" <de..ayenne.apache.org>
    > Date: October 18, 2007 6:00:54 PM GMT+03:00
    > To: andru..bjectstyle.org
    > Subject: [JIRA] Commented: (CAY-808) FoxPro adapter
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    > Thomas Bernhard commented on CAY-808:
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    >
    > Please include this FoxPro support - it would allow many
    > applications to use Cayenne.
    >
    > At every company I worked there were many old Foxpro applications
    > that nobody was dearing to touch nor to upgrade with newer
    > technologies. Cayenne + Swing(DataViews) could be a nice alternative.
    >
    >
    >> FoxPro adapter
    >> --------------
    >>
    >> Key: CAY-808
    >> URL: https://issues.apache.org/cayenne/browse/CAY-808
    >> Project: Cayenne
    >> Issue Type: New Feature
    >> Components: Cayenne Core Library
    >> Affects Versions: 1.2 [STABLE]
    >> Reporter: Øyvind Harboe
    >> Assignee: Andrus Adamchik
    >> Priority: Minor
    >> Attachments: foxpro.zip
    >>
    >>
    >> I've written a FoxPro adapter that is good enough to connect to a
    >> FoxPro database to fish out basic fields.
    >> Currently all committed Cayenne adapters include support for
    >> reverse engineering and schema creation. I think that's overkill
    >> for MS Access and FoxPro. FoxPro and MS Access would only be used
    >> in applications for bug-by-bug compatibility with some existing
    >> application and not as a backend for Cayenne if the developer has
    >> any say in the matter.
    >> Couldn't Cayenne support adapters of two types: full and simple?
    >> Simple being only basic read/write access?
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