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Path: digifix!not-for-mail From: pck@vnp.com (Paul King) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: VNP Software Ships AccessKit 2.0 Date: 4 Oct 1993 16:43:27 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Lines: 72 Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Approved: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <28q1tf$12c@digifix.digifix.com> Reply-To: AccessKit_Info @vnp.com Contact: Linda Rosen or Ronald Simmons VNP Software, Inc. Phone: (802) 496-7799 Fax: (802) 496-7790 Email: AccessKit_Info@vnp.com AccessKit Enhanced to Support Oracle, NEXTSTEP/FIP New Version Used at Major NeXT Sites for Business Library Development Cambridge, MA - October 4, 1993 - VNP Software today announced that the AccessKit(tm), a toolkit providing complete object-oriented access to database information, now offers support for Oracle(tm) and NEXTSTEP/FIP(tm). The AccessKit Version 2.0 allows programmers to access and modify database information transparently through custom Objective-C classes, optimizing NeXT's DBKit(tm) environment for vertical business library development. The AccessKit is used by many of the most advanced development sites within the NEXTSTEP community for building business libraries. Dan Crimmins, Vice President, First National Bank of Chicago, said: "The AccessKit is the best solution for database access. We've used it to model our trading business with reusable object libraries, giving our systems development a major competitive advantage." And according to Jim Loree, Senior Software Analyst, Chrysler Financial Corporation: "The AccessKit gives us the benefits of binding our business logic directly to our database information and greatly reduces our database programming efforts." The AccessKit provides developers with a mapping process that elevates traditional database operations into object-oriented methods, shortening development time and promoting code reusability. The VNPConfigure tool allows users to build and maintain mapping information, letting programmers graphically bind the attributes of a class to the associated database properties. This process is fast, easy to use and does not impose any schema restrictions on new or existing databases. Once mapping information is established, the AccessKit automatically provides database capabilities to mapped classes through an access library. All of the essential database operations can be invoked using a straightforward protocol. Any object modifications (insert, update, delete) can be performed on a database by sending the object the appropriate "save" or "delete" message. For retrievals, the AccessKit accommodates qualified and ordered queries, with the query results packaged in Objective-C instances of the requested class. These capabilities give NeXT developers the flexibility of object-oriented databases - without forcing them to abandon the stability of SQL platforms. Major enhancements to the AccessKit include: support for the Oracle DBKit adaptor, support for VNP's forthcoming IndexingKit(tm) adaptor, Sybase(tm) stored procedure support and the introduction of binding categories. Binding categories allow named subsets of class information to be retrieved from the database, allowing query performance to be optimized. The AccessKit's Sybase stored procedure support is comprehensive, handling both input and output parameters and binding output results directly to Objective-C classes. The AccessKit, priced at $1995 per seat, is available immediately. A demo version of the AccessKit package is available immediately via anonymous ftp at vnp.com in the /pub directory. A demo version of the AccessKit may also be obtained via NeXTMail. Send mail to AccessKit_Info@vnp.com for more details. VNP Software (Cambridge, MA) offers development tools and consulting expertise to the NEXTSTEP community. Other VNP Software products include the UIBinder Palette(tm), for binding object information to the UI; DevMan(tm), a source code control and configuration management tool; and IXAdaptor(tm), the DBKit adaptor for NeXT's Indexing Kit. Send mail to info@vnp.com for more details.
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