[AccessD] A97 BE with A2k3 FE

Bruce,
Thanks for the input! Sounds like what you're doing is more complicated than
my possible venture. 

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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bruen, Bruce

Been running a similar scenario for a year now on a test management system
that uses both an A97 (Jet 3.5) back end which is also used by a Jet 4.0
third aprty app, and a A2k "mid end" and both an A2K and an A2k3 front end.
The only problems I have found have been forgetting where I was and making
changes to the UI in A2k3 which are not compatible with the A2k fromt end.
Sound strange?

The back end is a UML model repository that we use to design the tests.
It's a Jet db that starts life as an A97 db and gets used by the UML tool
from http://www.sparxsystems.com.au (no relationship - highly
recommended) via Jet 4.0, when we move into test execution stage we use a
home-grown results recorder which I use on an A2k dev machine, the test lead
uses on an A2k runtime machine and every time I go home I think of something
else we could do and dev it up on A2k3.....

I have on occasion also taken the db's home and up-and-down-gradeded them to
A2k3 and back to "prev" without any ill effects.


.... Just lucky I guess  :-)

Hth
Bruce