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Anyone using FireDAC + DBISAM ODBC + iOS/Mac ? |
Wed, Jul 31 2013 8:13 AM | Permanent Link |
Luis Conception Gonzalez | Hi!
We are trying to make a simple version of our app (currently using DBISAM database engine) for iOS and MacOS and we have discovered that Delphi XE4 includes FireDAC, which allows to connect to whatever database engine natively or through ODBC driver. As DBISAM has its own ODBC driver, I'm hoping it is possible to make an iOS/MacOS application which connects with FireDAC to a remote ODBC driver/server. Do anyone know if this is possible? We are interested in upgrading to XE4, but only if this is true. I have read that FireDAC can even connect to DBase files using ODBC, so I think it's the same! Thanks! Luis C. www.SimplyGest.es |
Wed, Jul 31 2013 11:03 AM | Permanent Link |
Raul Team Elevate | On 7/31/2013 8:13 AM, Luis Conception Gonzalez wrote:
> As DBISAM has its own ODBC driver, I'm hoping it is possible to make an > iOS/MacOS application which connects with FireDAC to a remote ODBC > driver/server. > Do anyone know if this is possible? We are interested in upgrading to > XE4, but only if this is true. > I have read that FireDAC can even connect to DBase files using ODBC, so > I think it's the same! I'm not using it so have no first hand experience so rest are just some educated guesses. I'd say this is bit more complex than that. Yes, firedac does include odbc bridge drivers but clearly those are windows only so those cannot be run on iOS (firedac on iOS can obviouly talk to sqlite but that's local DBs). Hence the question on iOS is how would the firedac communicate with the windows server? As far as i know there is no firedac generic bridge server available nor can you can run dbisam server since you'd still need the odbc there somewhere. The way to us it is likely to use datasnap back end talking to dbisam over odbc bridge (e.g. iOS+firedac<-> datasnap <-> firemonkey odbc bridge <-> dbisam). I know there is some datasnap support in firedac but i'd say you should try it out before you buy as it's little muddy in my view. Using a also a more generic approach so you could use RemObjects DA or even custom back end - that likely would not be as seamless though if you intent to witch fully to firemonkey+firedac both both exsiting app and iOS app. Raul |
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