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

[Andrew <ac...@on...>]

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Luca De Rugeriis wrote:
| Il mar, 2003-11-11 alle 13:34, Elias Martenson ha scritto:
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|>Andrew - Dev wrote:
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|>>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?
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| I think this suggestion it's even better than the former ones, but I'm
| wondering who is going (and got the skills) to implement such a nice
| project?
|
| Luca.


I'd like to do something like this. I started on something that used
swing, it just performed too slow. Basically all I did on it was to
store sessions, store recent queries etc in xml, let the user define
query groups etc. A little different to what I was thinking with this
project, but some of the same concepts.
The biggest problem I could forsee (with that one and this) is the
generating of reports. I think they could be done (and thought of apache
fo, but I don't know a whole lot about that technology.
The other thing that pokes my mind is form desiging, and I thought some
use of glade could be done, but not quite sure as I haven't given it a
whole lot of time.
But the rest of it would be reasonable ok to do I think, well, I can't
think why it would be too hard. Don't you agree? I mean, surely if
people can write CD Burning software, a nice database tool would be
straight forward!!


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