Announcements of new Firebird related products, or new releases.
Crowd is a web-based single sign-on (SSO) tool that simplifies application provisioning and identity management.
Crowd Standalone ships with a built-in database, however, for production environments we recommend configuring Crowd Standalone to use an external database. Crowd supports most relational database servers and therefore we suggest using the one you are most comfortable administering.
jrmarino writes “Pascal Data Objects (PDO) is a database API that works equally well on FPC and Delphi. When I introduced this 10 months ago, only MySQL 4.0, 4.1, and 5.0 were supported. Since then, I have moved the project to Sourceforge and recently added drivers for Firebird 1.5 and 2.0. Some new abstraction capabilities were also added.”
Via lazarus.freepascal.org
A new version of InstantBDExpress, the tool of choice for porting Delphi BDE-based applications to the dbExpress technology is available. More details here: http://www.ethea.it/eng_instantbdexpress.asp.
After several months of development, NHibernate 1.2 is approaching release, as indicated by the change from Beta to CR (Candidate for Release). The latest release fixes most reported bugs and includes numerous small improvements. The release is now available for download as a Windows Installer (.msi) package, and a separate installer contains the API documentation, ready to be integrated into Visual Studio 2005.
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NHibernate is a port of Hibernate Core for Java to the .NET Framework. It handles persisting plain .NET objects to and from an underlying relational database. Given an XML description of your entities and relationships, NHibernate automatically generates SQL for loading and storing the objects. Optionally, you can describe your mapping metadata with attributes in your source code.
FIBPlus Developers Guide Part II is available for download now. From it you will know about:
Working with BLOB fields
Using unique FIBPlus field types
Working with array fields
Using TDataSetsContainer containers
Additional actions for TpFIBUpdateObject data modifying
Working with shared transactions
Batch processing
Centralized error handling – TpFIBErrorHandler
Getting TFIBSibEventAlerter events
Debugging FIBPlus applications
Monitoring SQL queries
FIBPlus repositories
Supporting Firebird 2.0
Additional FIBPlus features (Full UNICODE_FSS support, NO_GUI compilation option, Using
SynEdit in editors)
Unique design-time experts: FIBPlusTools
How to work with services
Getting server information
Managing server users
Backing up and restoring databases
Getting statistics about databases
If you want to know how to handle database errors with FIBPlus, read a new article in FIBPlus technology section . The article “FIBPlus: handling database errors” tells about:
Preparation for error handling
TpFIBErrorHandler properties and features
Handling exceptions
and demonstrates Delphi and C++ Builder code samples.
SQLAlchemy is the Python SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper that gives application developers the full power and flexibility of SQL.
It supports Firebird and provides a full suite of well known enterprise-level persistence patterns, designed for efficient and high-performing database access, adapted into a simple and Pythonic domain language.
No mention of firebird but an interesting news for php/delphi developers
The libdbi-drivers project hosts the database-specific drivers for libdbi, a database abstraction library written in C. Currently, drivers are available for Firebird/Interbase, FreeTDS (MS-SQL and Sybase client), mSQL, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQLite/SQLite3.
Release focus: Minor feature enhancements
NHibernate 1.0.4 bugfix version was released at 24 january 2007.
NHibernate is a port of Hibernate Core for Java to the .NET Framework. It handles persisting plain .NET objects to and from an underlying relational database. Given an XML description of your entities and relationships, NHibernate automatically generates SQL for loading and storing the objects. Optionally, you can describe your mapping metadata with attributes in your source code.
All Firebird versions supported by the FirebirdSql.Firebird drivers (version 1.6 and 1.7) are supported, including Firebird Embedded.
There is also NHibernate 1.2.0.Beta3 version available for download, which supports latest Firebird .NET provider version 2.0. This version includes support for using stored procedures with entities mapped by NHibernate, support for .NET 2.0 generic and nullable types, and many other improvements and features ported from Hibernate 3.x.
