============================================================================== ODBTalk for Visual Smalltalk ============================================================================== This product provides the Smalltalk developer with full 16 and 32-bit ODBC SDK 2.01 support. All ODBC conformance levels (core, level 1 & 2) are supported. ODBTalk provides support for all ODBC data types (including BLOBs), input, output and inout parameters and positioned statements (native or through the ODBC cursor library). Visual programming components integrated with the PARTS catalog are included with the Visual Smalltalk version. There are now available ODBC drivers for over 50 databases, from large platform databases like DB/2 and AS/400, to UNIX relational-SQL databases like Oracle and SQL-Server, down to PC databases like Access and dBase. With ODBTalk you can develop Smalltalk database access logic once for all of the major Intel-based PC environments for multiple RDBMS. ODBTalk for VisualWorks is source-code compatible on all Smalltalk development platforms - Windows 16-bit, Win32s, Windows-NT and OS/2, and for all major Smalltalk versions - Digitalk, IBM and ParcPlace. It also supports Object Technology Inc.'s ENVY/Developer. ODBTalk also includes the OO <---> RDBMS mapping framework, which automates the process of developing complex client-server Smalltalk applications interfacing to relational databases. It provides for retrieval and instantiation of objects mapped to a relational database as well as update, delete, and insert capabilities. You can automatically generate SQL DDL statements from the OO model or automatically generate the OO Model from an existing SQL database schema. The product includes online help, more than 100 programming examples, including a sample application. As well, an ODBC Workbench integrated within the VisualWorks development environment is provided. Executables may be distributed with no runtime fees. The product may be returned within 30 days for a full refund. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ODBTalk 3.0 for Visual Smalltalks requires a PC capable of running Windows 3.x Windows-NT or Windows 95, Digitalk's Visual Smalltalk 3.x and ODBC-compliant drivers for the databases you wish to access. ODBTalk for Visual Smalltalk is priced at $399 US. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Contact Ken Findlay at: LPC Consulting Services Inc. tel: 416-787-5290 937 Briar Hill Avenue fax: 416-787-5290 Toronto, ON M6B 1M1 CompuServe: 73055,123 Canada Internet: kfindlay@ican.ca World Wide Web: http://www.smalltalk.net/lpc/