This section summarizes the functionality in the SDK version 12.5.1. For more information about each component, see the individual documents listed in “Product documents”.
Open Client™/C version 12.5.1 – an API, a set of libraries used to develop and deploy C-language applications that access Adaptive Server data. Included on the installation CD are:
Drivers for integrating Client-Library™ and Open Server™ applications with DCE directory and security services
Sample programs for Client-Library and DB-Library™
Open Client Embedded SQL™/C version 12.5.1 – the pre-compiler that allows you to embed Transact-SQL® statements into C-language applications.
Open Client Embedded SQL/COBOL version 12.5.1 – the pre-compiler that allows you to embed Transact-SQL statements into COBOL-language applications.
Language modules – provide system messages and datetime formats to help you localize your applications. Default installation includes:
U.S. English language module
Unicode UTF-8 encoding (utf8)
IBM code page 850 (cp850)
IBM code page 437 (cp437)
Apple Macintosh Roman (mac)
ISO 8859-1 (iso_1)
Hewlett-Packard Roman 8 (roman8) character sets
You can purchase additional language modules through Sybase.
Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) version 4.2
OLEDB version 2.7
ASE ADO.NET Data Provider version 1.0 – allows you to access data in ASE using any language supported by .NET, such as C#, Visual Basic.NET, C++ with managed extensions, and J#.
jConnect™ for JDBC™ version 5.5 – the Java implementation of the Java JDBC standard, which provides Java developers with native database access in multitier and heterogeneous environments. For jConnect hardware and software requirements as well as installation instructions, refer to the Installation Guide for jConnect for JDBC.
Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.3.1 – the runtime environment required by jConnect for JDBC.
