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IBMa® Informixa® is a low-administration, easy-to-use, and embeddable database that is ideal for application development. It supports a wide range of development platforms, such as Javaa„¢, .NET, PHP, and web services, enabling developers to build database applications in the language of their choice. Informix is designed to handle RDBMS data and XML without modification and can be extended easily to handle new data sets.
This IBM Redbooksa® publication provides fundamentals of Informix application development. It covers the Informix Client installation and configuration for application development environments. It discusses the skills and techniques for building Informix applications with Java, ESQL/C, OLE DB, .NET, PHP, Ruby on Rails, DataBladea®, and Hibernate.
The book uses code examples to demonstrate how to develop an Informix application with various drivers, APIs, and interfaces. It also provides application development troubleshooting and considerations for performance.
This book is intended for developers who use IBM Informix for application development. Although some of the topics that we discuss are highly technical, the information in the book might also be helpful for managers or database administrators who are looking to better understand their Informix development environment.
About the Authors
Whei-Jen Chen is a Project Leader at the International Technical Support Organization, San Jose Center. She has extensive experience in application development, database design and modeling, and DB2 system administration. Whei-Jen is an IBM Certified Solutions Expert in Database Administration and Application Development, and an IBM Certified IT Specialist
Krishna Doddi (also known as Prasad) has been with IBM Informix since 1996. He worked in Informix Advanced Support for Client Products. The main products he supported were Informix Client Software Development Kit (Client SDK), mostly on the Microsoft Windows platform. After the IBM acquisition in 2001, he moved to DB2 Advanced Support, again in the Client Products division. After five years in DB2, he moved to Informix QA for Informix Client products, including JCC Common Client and PureQuery. He is currently the contact for Informix Integration projects.
Manoj Ghogale is a Tech Lead in the Informix team at ISL India. Manoj has 9 years of industry experience and has been with IBM for 5 years. He has worked on numerous automation projects and new features of Informix Server. He holds a Bachelor`s degree in Engineering from National Institute of Engineering, Mysore, India.
David Jay is a Staff Software Engineer in the IBM North Americas Technical Support Team, providing advanced technical support, defect discovery, and support training for Informix products and SolidDB. David joined the Informix Support team in September 1996, and has served in various software and support roles since the 1980`s. He has a Bachelor of Science from Pennsylvania State University, and enjoys public speaking assignments whenever he gets them through Toastmasters and IBM.
Javier Sagrera is a software engineer on the Common Client Technologies (CCT) group. He joined the Informix team in 2000 and has over 15 years experience in application development for Informix database servers and Informix clients. Currently based on the IBM UK Bedfont Lab in London, he has extensive knowledge on all the Microsoft technologies and is considered as a subject matter expert worldwide on all the Informix development tools.isbn-9789350233658
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