Product Family Overview
The Recital 9 product family is a platform, user
interface and data source independent solution that defines and
delivers tools and technologies for building character based, client/server
and internet-based database solutions.The Recital 9 product family
is comprised of four integrated products that work against a common
database engine.
Recital 9 Terminal Developer
Recital 9 Terminal Developer is the only cross-platform ANSI SQL compliant
database and 4GL for Linux, Unix, and OpenVMS that has 100% language
and database compatibility with FoxPro 2.6 and SCO FoxBASE. According
to Oracle, statistics show that migrating your applications to run
against a new database can amount to 50% of your overall migration
project, and that does not include recoding of the application logic!
That's why Recital 9 Terminal Developer is the premier cross-platform
tool for running, enhancing, and supporting your legacy FoxPro 2.6
and SCO FoxBASE applications on Linux, Unix or OpenVMS without the
need to rewrite the application, or retrain your developers and
end-users.
Recital 9 Visual Developer
Recital 9 Visual Developer is the only product for Windows, Linux, Unix, and OpenVMS that
migrates FoxPro 2.6 and SCO FoxBASE applications to the internet
and transforms them into GUI client/server applications without
having to rewrite the code. Legacy FoxPro 2.6 and SCO FoxBASE applications
can be enhanced with full Windows .NET Forms functionality. Recital
9 Visual Developer extends the life of your existing applications,
providing you with a greater return on investment, without the need
to rewrite the application, or retrain your developers and end-users.
Recital 9 Database Server
The Recital 9 Database Server is the only cross-platform ANSI compliant SQL database
server for Windows, Linux, Unix, and OpenVMS that has native support
for Visual FoxPro 8.0 SQL and allows stored procedures, triggers,
and user-defined functions to be written in a Visual FoxPro 8.0 compatible
4GL. The Recital 9 Database Server includes a Universal ODBC driver,
a Universal JDBC driver, and a Universal .NET Data Provider. The Recital
9 Database Server has support for accessing disparate data on Linux,
Unix, OpenVMS and Windows servers across the internet. Also includes
support for server-side ODBC drivers, JDBC drivers and ADO drivers.
If you know Visual FoxPro then you can be productive immediately with
The Recital 9 Database Server.
Recital 9 Web Developer
The Recital 9 Web Developer Firecat Server is a data-centric
HTTP Server that incorporates a Database and 4GL. Using Recital
Firecat you can generate dynamic content web pages with the Recital/4GL.
Recital Firecat can coexist with the existing Web Server on your
system, so there is no disruption to your existing website infrastructure.
Using Recital Web Developer, you can generate rich reports that
can be integrated in with Recital Mirage .NET applications or Recital
Terminal applications.
Features And Benefits
Leverage your existing skills
With the Recital 9 product family you can leverage the technical
skills developers already have without the need to retrain them
before they are productive.
Migrate your existing applications
With the Recital 9 product family you can migrate existing Recital,
FoxPro 2.6, and SCO FoxBASE applications across platforms or to
the internet and transforms them into GUI client/server applications
without having to rewrite the code.
User Interface agnostic
With the Recital 9 product family you build applications for dumb
terminals, telnet clients, web browser clients, Java clients, .NET
clients, and ODBC clients.
Broad cross-platform support
Recital 9 products runs on Windows, Linux, Unix and OpenVMS servers
with complete cross-server connectivity for accessing data across
diverse platforms.
An open solution
The Recital 9 product family is based on open industry specifications
with broad industry support and works with all major established
database products, as well as it's own high performance database
engine.
Integrate data from disparate sources
The Recital 9 Database engine has native support for accessing data
from Recital, Visual FoxPro, FoxPro, Clipper, dBase, CISAM and RMS
as well as open system gateways to many leading SQL databases.
ANSI SQL compliant
The Recital 9 Database engine has a complete ANSI compliant SQL
engine that works with Recital, Visual FoxPro, FoxPro, FoxBASE,
Clipper, CISAM, and RMS database files.
Visual FoxPro 8.0 compatible SQL
The Recital 9 Database engine also includes a complete Visual FoxPro
8.0 compatible SQL engine that works with Recital, Visual FoxPro,
FoxPro, FoxBASE, Clipper, CISAM, and RMS data. The Visual FoxPro
8.0 compatible SQL engine also provides complete support for writing
server-side stored procedures in Visual FoxPro, and also supports
the latest Visual FoxPro 8.0 structured error handling language
constructs TRY/CATCH/THROW...FINALLY.
Provides Enterprise Data and Legacy Application connectivity
The Recital 9 Database engine provides connectivity to relational
and non-relational data sources, transaction systems, and legacy
applications through native drivers across all major computing platforms.
Integrated XML support
The Recital 9 Database engine provides integrated XML language support
providing Microsoft ADO.NET XML compatible data import and export
that works with Recital, Visual FoxPro, FoxPro, FoxBASE, Clipper,
CISAM, and RMS data. You can import and export data across platforms
using XML.
Very Large Database support
The Recital 9 Database engine supports Very Large Databases (tables
larger than 2GB) up to 2^63 bytes. Archiving large amounts of data
in Recital 9 has never been easier.
World class customer support
Should you ever need help getting the most out of our products,
our technical support team is available by email, phone or fax to
answer your technical questions about our products. We'll provide
the kind of support you’ll need during development and afterwards.
Write server-side business logic in the .NET language of your
choice
The Recital 9 Database engine enables server-side stored procedures,
business logic, and triggers to be written in a wide variety of
languages. In version 9.1 the Microsoft .NET CLR will be integrated
in with the server on the Windows platform (and also on Linux using
Mono see http://www.go-mono.org ).
This will allow stored procedures to be written in any of the .NET
languages; C#, VB.NET, J#.NET, JScript.NET.
Navigational and SQL Data Access
The Recital 9 Database engine provides navigational access to databases
as well as SQL data access. Navigational data access is invaluable
when application performance is critical.
Local Cursor Engine
The Recital 9 Database engine lets you easily manipulate data interactively
and programmatically using a Visual FoxPro 8.0 compatible local
cursor engine.
Active Data Dictionary
The Recital 9 Database engine lets you create persistent relationships
between tables, stored procedures, events, triggers, rules, and
default values and store them in its Active Data Dictionary.
Database Events
The Recital 9 Database engine lets you control user actions with
code that executes when a database is opened, closed, or modified.
Built-in Batch-Processing Capabilities
The Recital 9 Database engine lets you quickly and directly manipulate
large amounts of data in corporate transaction-processing solutions.
Universal Data Access
The Recital 9 Database Server includes an Universal ODBC driver,
Universal JDBC driver and a Universal .NET Data Provider for external
client data access.
Structured Error Handling
The Recital 9 Database engine lets you control and encapsulate error
handling in code using TRY...CATCH...FINALLY structure, escalate
exceptions using THROW, and manage using Exception objects.
Choose your favorite Web
Server
Recital 9 Web Developer comes complete with its own web server,
but if you prefer to use your existing Apache or IIS web server,
Recital Web Developer can be easily integrated with your current
setup. The Recital Web Developer distribution for Linux and Unix
includes an Apache loadable module and instructions on its installation.
On Windows, Recital Web Developer includes an ISAPI filter and details
on configuring IIS to work with the Recital Firecat Server.
Key
Features
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Cross-platform Visual FoxPro 8.0 compatible
SQL with local cursor engine including all SQLxxx() functions
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Enhanced Visual FoxPro 8.0 language and function
compatibility |
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Backwards compatible with earlier versions
of Recital, FoxPro 2.6, SCO FoxBASE, and Clipper |
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ANSI SQL syntax compliant |
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Navigational and SQL data access |
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Active Data Dictionary |
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Supports stored procedures, triggers and user-defined
functions written in Recital, Visual FoxPro or any .NET language
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Broad cross-platform support; Windows, Linux,
Unix, and OpenVMS |
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Row level locking |
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Low-level ISAM C API for high performance C/C++
embedded non-server database access |
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ODBC compatible C API for C/C++ embedded non-server
database access |
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Full text indexing and searching |
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Complete support for SQL subqueries |
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Extensible using dynamically loadable C function
and class libraries |
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Flexible security system with column-level
protection |
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Extensible with our new C OBJECT API for building
dynamically loadable class libraries in C/C++ |
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Trap hard to find bugs using the new ASSERT
command |
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Enhanced integrated XML language support providing
Microsoft ADO.NET XML data import and export |
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Enhanced built-in Client/Server capabilities
with universal data access via open system gateways |
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Now supports Visual FoxPro 8.0 database events
including CHECK and ERROR |
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Now supports MySQL extensions including CREATE/DROP/USE
DATABASE and running .sql files |
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Now supports Very Large Databases (tables larger
than 2GB) up to 2^63 bytes |
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Now supports joins across multiple databases
using the database!table command syntax |
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Now supports nested transactions |
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Now supports enhanced database security with
built-in DES3 encryption |
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Now supports 32-character field names |
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Now supports 256 columns per table |
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Now supports NULLs |
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Now supports DateTime and Currency data types
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Now supports nested SQL SELECT statements |
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Now supports SQL UNIONs |
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Now supports structured error handling using
TRY/CATCH/THROW...FINALLY |
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Now supports Auto-Increment fields |
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New Mirage .NET client |
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New native ODBC driver for Linux that works
with PHP |
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New Mirage .NET Developer |
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Firecat server uses standard
security/authentication of either Apache or IIS including "https"
support |
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