mj@dde.dk (Martin Jensen) (06/17/91)
Does anybody out there have experience with the TOP*Case product?
TOP*Case appears to be an application-generator combined with a 'lower'-Case,
distributed by the company SQL Solutions.
There papers sounds promissing to me - but does it work in reality?
Here is a little list of minor technical questions on TOP*Case:
- Does TOP*Case provide an reasonable user-exit facility?
- Does TOP*Case handle the LONG Oracle RDBMS datatype?
- Is it possible to use the PL/SQL mechanism i TOP*Case applications?
- Is it possible to upload existing SQL*Forms definitions to the TOP*Case
dictionary?
- Are there any 'National Languagte Support' in TOP*Case.
- How would you compare TOP*Case to SQL*Forms 3.0
Any comments on this topic will be appreciated - Thanks in advance.
Best regards - And do not forget to enjoy the summer!
Martin Jensen
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Martin Jensen, Dansk Data Elektronik A/S, Herlev, Denmark
E-mail: ..!uunet!mcvax!dkuug!dde!mj or mj@dde.DK
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Don't take life too seriously -- you'll never get out if it alive.gordon@barbados.uk.sun.com (G Rehling. SUN UK S+LHC Gatwic) (06/24/91)
I went to a user group meeting a few months ago and saw a few major name customers e.g BULL, Shell... Bull particularly seemed to be big users of the product and had nothing but praise. All the users seemed very happy - one guy runs a s/w consultancy and claims to have developed a fairly large system in a matter of weeks - support is great 'cos mods are made very easily and the system just needs a re-compile to propogate the changes i.e. all mods are in the data dictionary, you don't have to fiddle with the generated code. They also showed an X11 based (Athena widgets - contrary to claimed OPEN LOOK and MOTIF) front end which dynamically creates the X11 screens from the data dictionary, i.e. no recompile of front-ends when fields change 'cos it's all dynamic. Extensions for business graphics as part of the X11 interface are planned. Comparing TOP*CASE and SQL*Forms.... in Forms you often have to patch up the code for ref integrity and other little things... in TOP*CASE you describe it all in the data dictionary, so the generated code is the final code.