On 15/03/07, Jeff Garland <jeff@crystalclearsoftware.com> wrote:
Careful what you ask for ;-) It's been my dream for a couple years now to try and get all the folks interested in db access to work together to get a Boost library and then subsequently a standards proposal completed. I don't think my cajoling has led to anything of substance -- various folks have their own solutions they are happy with: DTL, OTL, native interfaces, whatever. The problem with this lack of standard in C++ is that since the efforts are divergent, there's not enough critical mass to build tools around any of the API's: which is frankly where, in my view, Java, Ruby, etc get much of their productivity advantages w.r.t. database access over C++.
We do have a C++ database abstraction layer which supports Oracle(OCI) /DB2 (CLI) /SQL Server(OLEDB) on various platforms( Solaris, AIX, Windows and HP-UX) and is in use for more than 5 years. I would like to contribute to this effort.
Jeff
-- regards, Prashant Thakre