jBase and jBoss database

Dear All,

I have an issue related to database of jBoss and JBasee.
Currently, jBoss and jBase are flat file DB. Thus, is it now these 2 DBs supported with Relational Database ?

Please help to provide any expirence for these 2 DBs as relational DB is possible or not.

Thanks and Regards,
Vorleak

Welcome aboard...

Actually, jBase data files are not flat files, they are so-called "hashed files" with partially binary structure. jBase is so-called "multi-valued" or "post-relational" database (Pick systems was the first one IIRC). A quick Internet search on these words might help a lot to understand its basics...

RDBMS is supported in jBase via a driver "Direct Connect". The data in relational DB is stored in XML reflecting the multi-valued data model.

HTH

Hi VK,

Thanks for response.
Let me briefly decribe our current system.

We are currently using T24 R12.
Our DB is already migrated to ORACLE.
However, we still have jBase interface for application does any job.
1- My query is that is there any way to improve jBase at this situation. why still need to have jBase ?
2- What is the function of jBoss ? is there any way to improve jBoss ?
3- Is it possible to convert jBase and jBoss to True Relational DB ?

Thanks and Regards,
Vorleak

Answers:

1. Business logic of T24 is still based on jQL/jBC. jBase DIrect Connect driver converts business logic of T24 to SQL so you need it.
2. JBoss is application server that is used to provide the users access via web-interface (and - optionally - for some interfaces, depending on your architecture). Improve JBoss? Yes, community (free) edition isn't that stable; you can try to migrate to commercial version of JBoss or to some other application server, like IBM WebSphere etc.
3. Not in the nearest future. I believe Temenos works on this but it's a very long way.

Dear VK,

Many thanks for your explanation.
I have 2 more doubts :

1- Does jBase & jBoss cause slow performance to T24 ?
2- Is there way to improve jBase & jBoss ?

Thanks and Regards,
Vorleak

Hi

Of course jBase addressing RDBMS via driver is slower than the native interface; however we don't have a choice here.

Performance of T24 is very complex question; "improve" in this case is to adress perrformance issues as soon as you have them; it's a bit hard to predict ones, though it's often local developments that can slow down T24 a lot (and here the analysis can be done of course).