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

[Andrus Adamchik <an...@objectstyle.org>]

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...@cayenne.apache.org>
> Date: October 18, 2007 6:00:54 PM GMT+03:00
> To: andrus@objectstyle.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
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>>
>>                 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
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>>
>> 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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