On 05/20/12 12:52 PM, John Townsend wrote:
> By by-passing the "dll" (or "so" on Linux) library I mean you write
> function or procedure calls to the server that is running as a service
> on Windows. You don't use the library with its 160 exported functions.
> You connect directly to the server thus saving one layer of
> protocols. To do this, you have to translate all the c functions you
> need (not just the headers or ".h" files) into pascal. Not a trivial
> task!
the database service is a completely separate collection of processes.
you can't just 'call' between processes, you need a RPC mechanism.
sockets are as good a mechanism as any.
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