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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: Using Java to add records to a DB file
In-Reply-To: <38ECF564.FF1CF779@partitur.se> from Palle Girgensohn at "Apr 6, 2000 10:36:52 pm"
To: girgen@partitur.se (Palle Girgensohn)
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 14:28:58 -0700 (PDT)
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Palle Girgensohn writes:
> I need to add records to a Berkeley DB file (the FreeBSD built
> in, version 1?)
> 
> While I can find a java interface for the sleepycat.com versions
> 2 & 3, the version 1.85 (which has a different API) is hardly
> covered by that Java code.
> 
> Has anyone seen or done anything like this? Really, all I need is
> to insert a record, nothing more.

I've thought about writing such a thing.  The first problem is
that the dbopen(3) routines call malloc(3) directly, which can
confuse any Java runtime rather quickly.

So the first step would be 'extracting' these calls in the dbopen(3)
stuff to (optionally) go through a user-supplied function vector.
Shouldn't be too hard.

-Archie

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