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From: Karl Lieberherr <lieber@ccs.neu.edu>
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To: WMcMahon@BFDS.com, lieber@ccs.neu.edu
Subject: Re:  DB required in order to run my project
Cc: jayantha@ccs.neu.edu
Status: R

Hi Bill:

solution 2 would be easiest for us. It is then self contained
and users who like the self-contained version can go through
the effort of getting a DB.

I am very interested in your experiments:
"I spent quite a bit of time experimenting with traversals and classes to try to come up with the most
effective (structure-shy) way to generate the application files"

Could you say a bit more on them? Is there a pattern there which
I could teach?

Also, how does your original vision work out? How easy is
it to fine-tune the generated adaptive programs?

-- Karl

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>Prof. Lieberherr,
>
>In order to run my project on any system, it must have a database with a
>JDBC driver installed. Do you and/or Josh have such an environment?
>
>If not, these are the options that come to my mind:
>
>1) Josh can download (or I can loan you the CD) IBM's 60 day evaluation
>copy of DB2. There is a link to that IBM site on my project web page. It
>is pretty easy to install, but the evaluation copy is for Windows only.
>It comes with the same sample data that I used.
>
>2) I can write some stubs for the DB part of the code that work with
>flat files.
>
>3) CCS has Sybase and a JDBC driver is available for it, but I am not
>sure which CCS machines Sybase is running on, or how to go about getting
>the JDBC driver installed.  Could the Systems Group do that?
>
>A really nice option would be to use my DB server over the internet, but
>I don't think I could get that traffic through my company's firewall.
>It's too bad because an applet version would make a great demo on the
>project web page.  
>
>If you would like me to do option 2, please let me know as soon a
>possible so I can start working on it.  And, of course, if have any
>other suggestions please let me know.
>
>Thanks,
>--Bill
>