Readme (Readme.txt)
InterClient 3.00 Final Build
Last modified: Oct 22, 2002


Contents:
     o Where's the documentation?
     o What is InterClient?
     o Compatibilities
     o Configuration
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Where's the documentation?

The complete HTML documentation can be accessed from the file
index.html in your InterClient docs directory.  

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What is InterClient?

InterClient is an all-Java JDBC driver for InterBase.

InterClient is a networked driver, meaning that it incorporates a
JDBC remote protocol for exchanging and caching data between
client and server.  This allows for a browser-enabled client with
no preinstalled client libraries (such as ODBC) to access
InterBase data across the net.  This differs from a JDBC bridge
which maps from the JDBC API to some native RDBMS client API or
ODBC.  A JDBC bridge implementation relies on the RDBMS client
library for the actual exchange and caching of data between
server and client.

The advantage of a networked driver over a bridge implementation
is that the client is 100% pure Java, thereby providing for
cross-platform, robust, and secure applets.  A bridge 
implementation requires some binary code to be pre-loaded on each
client machine, contrary to the notion of an applet.

The JDBC remote protocol employed by InterClient is streamlined
for JDBC data access and is database independent except in cases
where InterBase access can be optimized or proprietary InterBase
features may be leveraged.

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Compatibilities

Neither InterBase nor InterServer need to be installed on
the client machine, nor even InterClient if running applets.

InterClient 3.00 is compatible with the Java Development Kits 
(JDK) 1.3 and 1.4 and with Interbase 7.0.

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Copyright (c) 2002 Borland Software Corporation
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