[Fwd: Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Java-GNOME thoughts]

[Elias M. <el...@al...>]

Andrew - Dev wrote:

> Actually, the thing that I think is missing (or I can't find) is a
> substitute for MS Access. I think something could be done that uses
> HSQLDB (for example) and a front end is tacked on to it to provide a
> schema builder, forms, reports. I have seen some around, but they are
> really poor quality and usually cost $.

That's a brilliant suggestion really. I consider JDBC to be superiour to
the non-java alternatives. ODBC isn't much of a standard on Unix, and
Gnome-DB isn't working properly yet and still doesn't support many
databases. Every single database out there has working JDBC drivers
available today.

This is the best suggestion so far for a killer app that leverages Java
technologies. Don't you all think?

Elias