Re: [Squirrel-sql-users] SQLBookmark 1.0 - How to activate the default bookmarks

[Gerd W. <bir...@t-...>]

Hi Karim,

Karim D. Saloojee wrote:
 > Hi Gerd
 >
 > Thanks, I found the registry key, removed it and now the bookmarks are
 > displaying correctly.
 >
 > I just have a question on development of Java GUI's on multiple
 > platforms. Why did you use the home folder on *NIX and the registry on
 > Windows? Considering that you do already make use of the home folder on
 > Windows for other things like plugins etc. Is there a problem with how
 > Windows treats the home folder vs *NIX? Or did you try and make the
 > application use all of the features that were provided by the host OS?
For more complex configuration data we use Java Beans together with an 
XML-Serialization framework. For those SQuirreL itself determines the 
place to write the data to which is always the users home directory. For 
little things we sometimes spare us the Java Beans and use the standard 
Java Preference API and this is the one that uses the home directory on 
*NIX and the registry on Windows. A Java programmer only sees the 
Preference-API he doesn't need to know anything about where the data is 
actually stored.

Gerd