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

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

tis 2003-11-11 klockan 19.40 skrev Luca De Rugeriis:
> Il mar, 2003-11-11 alle 13:34, Elias Martenson ha scritto:
> > 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?
> 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?

I'd be interested in helping out. Definately. Not only forms support but
also general database manager, similar to DbVisualizer
(http://www.minq.se/products/dbvis/) would be cool.

I'm not the person to start such a project by myself though.

Elias