Combined languages in server and client implementations
You can choose to combine languages for the server implementation
and the optional client implementations of your opaque data type:
C or C++ for the server implementation and ActiveX for the client
implementation.
The following table describes some of the advantages and disadvantages
to consider when you choose server and client implementation languages.
Option
Advantage
Disadvantage
Using the same server and client implementation
language
Using different languages for the server and client
implementations
If you use C as the server language, you can implement
functionality that is not available for Java or
C++.
You have more code to edit because you have separate
server and client source code.
The following figure illustrates the advantage of choosing C++
for both the client and server implementations: much of the same generated
source code can be used to compile each project. Figure 1: Choosing C++ for both client and server
projects
Important: It is recommended that developers create DataBlade modules
in C++ only for client projects and for server projects that use HCL Informix® on Windows only.