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FireFoot is library that provides an easy way for C language programmers to connect to Firebird database servers (and provably Interbase). It uses the Firebird/Interbase API.
Library supports:
- Create, delete, connect to Firebird database servers.
- Single transaction management.
- Common or parametrized SQL statement support.
- Support for basic data types and BLOBs.
- User management support.
- Support the backup and restore of databases.
This library exists as an alternative of Firebird/Interbase C language API. It is made in C language, using GLib object model.
- It is planned to be multiplatform, working at least on Linux and Windows. Until now it is only tested on Linux, but shouldnt be a problem to port it to Windows.
FireFoot libary is released under the GNU/GPL version 2 licence.

Jaybird is JCA/JDBC driver suite to connect to Firebird database server. Historically Borland opened sources of type 3 JDBC driver called InterClient.

However due to some inherent limitations of Firebird client library it was decided that type 3 driver is a dead end, and Firebird team developed pure Java implementation of wire protocol.

This implementation became basis for JayBird, pure Java driver for Firebird relational database.

This driver is based on both the new JCA standard for application server connections to enterprise information systems and the well known JDBC standard.

The JCA standard specifies an architecture in which an application server can cooperate with a driver so that the application server manages transactions, security, and resource pooling, and the driver supplies only the connection functionality.

While similar to the JDBC 2 XADataSource idea, the JCA specification is considerably clearer on the division of responsibility between the application server and driver.

JayBird 1.5 provides extensions to some JDBC interfaces. All extension interfaces are released under modified BSD license, on “AS IS” basis, this should make linking to these classes safe from the legal point of view. All classes belong to org.firebirdsql.jdbc.* package.

JayBird 1.0 provided only pure Java wire protocol implementation. While being most effective in client-server setups (even more effective than native client libraries), it performed worser when connected to the server residing on the same host compared to native (C/C++/Delphi/etc) solutions. Reason is that type 4 driver communicates with the server using network sockets, which introduce additional overhead. Native client library has possibility to use IPC when connecting to the database on the same host. This might increase performance even by 100%.

JayBird 1.5 provides also type 2 JDBC driver that uses native client library to connect to the databases. Additionally JayBird 1.5 can use embedded version of Firebird relational database allowing to create Java applications that does not require separate server setup.

However type 2 driver has also limitations. Due to multi-threading issues in Firebird client library, it is not possible to access it from different threads simultaneously when running in local mode (IPC). In this case only one thread is allowed to access library at a time. Driver tries to provide needed synchronization.

Current implementation uses mutex that is local to the classloader that loaded JayBird classes. This poses some deployment limitations: firebirdsql.jar must be deployed so, that it is loaded by the system classloader. For standalone web containers like Resin or Tomcat, JayBird should usually be deployed in their lib/ directory. It is allowed to include it in the WAR archives, but if and only if it is guaranteed that only one application will access Firebird.

When accessing remote servers thread per connection policy applies. Driver provides necessary synchronization for this situation.

Embedded version of the server cannot be used on Linux systems in multi-threaded applications. In particular this makes embedded version of the server unusable for web applications, where usually each request is served in separate thread.

libdbi implements a database-independent abstraction layer in C, similar to the DBI/DBD layer in Perl.
Writing one generic set of code, programmers can leverage the power of multiple databases and multiple simultaneous database connections by using this framework.
The libdbi-drivers project provides the database-specific drivers for the libdbi framework. The drivers officially supported by libdbi are:
- Firebird/Interbase
- FreeTDS (provides access to MS SQL Server and Sybase)
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- SQLite/SQLite3
The following drivers are in various stages of completion and are supposed to be included into the next release:
- mSQL
- Oracle
Enhancements:
- This release fixes a packaging error in 0.8.2. There are no source code changes.

KInterbasDB project is a Python extension package that implements Python Database API 2.0-compliant support for the open source relational database Firebird and some versions of its proprietary cousin Borland Interbase.
In addition to the minimal feature set of the standard Python DB API, KInterbasDB also exposes nearly the entire native client API of the database engine.
Enhancements:
- At concurrency_level 1, it was possible for a deadlock to occur if KInterbasDB simultaneously raised an exception in one thread while executing a SQL statement in another. This problem did not affect concurrency_level 2. Thanks for Atsuo Ishimoto for reporting this bug.
- The official implementation of the automagic TEXT_UNICODE type translator (in the kinterbasdb.typeconv_text_unicode module) was missing support for the new character sets introduced in Firebird 2.0 (namely, the corrected version of UTF8, plus KOI8-R, KOI8-U, and WIN1258). Thanks to Oleg Deribas for bringing this to my attention.

Mozilla Firefox project (formerly Firebird, which was formerly Phoenix) is a redesign of Mozillas browser component, written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform.
Mozilla Firefox is a Mozilla browser.
It is small, fast and easy to use, and offers many advantages over other web browsers, such as the tabbed browsing and the ability to block pop-up windows.
Main features:
- comprehensive popup controls to keep unwanted advertising off your desktop;
- a tab browsing mode that lets you open several pages in a single window, allowing you to load links in the background without leaving the page youre on;
- integrated search (powered by Google);
- industry leading accessibility with Find As You Type - find links and page text by simply typing;
- simplified privacy controls that let you cover your tracks more effectively;
- a streamlined browser window that lets you see more of the page than any other browser while at the same time being more configurable;
- a large variety of free downloadable extensions and themes that add specific functionality and visual changes to the browser.

nsFB is an internal AOLserver database driver for the Firebird or Interbase database. It supports reading and writing BLOB data and ARRAY data.
nsFB project supports the full size of varchar (32765 bytes) or char (32767 bytes). Many configuration options are supported, such as charset, dialect, transaction isolation level, etc. All kinds of data types are supported, such as NUMERIC or DECIMAL
Enhancements:
- This release adds support for importing a file into a BLOB and writing a BLOB into a file.
- Hexadecimal or base 64 string representations of data can be read from or written to the database.

The Job Scheduler runs executable files, shell scripts and database procedures automatically (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird and SQL Server, Oracle, DB2).

Job Scheduler processes sequential and parallel tasks and job chains, provides an API for job implementation with Java, Javascript, VBScript, Perl and exposes jobs as Web Services.