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| From | Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: Ping: Roedy Green or anyone else familiar with JWS (Java Web Start) |
| Date | 2016-04-27 09:46 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <nfq1pl$flr$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 22:32:29 -0400, Rhino wrote: > I haven't been keeping up to date with JavaWS. If it is effectively > dead, what is the best way to create an app that I can share with other > users? > Distributing a Java app that connects to a central database is certainly easy enough to do - provided the users have a suitable JRE installed you can set things up so you only distribute a singe jar file: its simple enough to keep configuration data in the jar, if yoyu prefer that, along with a tool that can set up the config for the individual user. > To be more specific, my current app needs to run on recent versions of > Windows and will be reading/storing/inserting/updating/deleting > information on a DB2 database (or maybe MySQL). > My preference would be for a single central DB, but of course it should use individual logins for each user and preferably would also use an encrypted connection. Two more databases to consider: MariaDB and PostgreSQL. I use the latter and am extremely impressed with its reliability and almost total lack of routine maintenance apart from periodic backups. And, if you want to be 100% Java there's always Derby. > It uses Java FX and FXML > for its GUI. An applet or application or web page would all be > acceptable ways for the users to run the program. I don't anticipate > using it on a phone or a non-Windows OS. > Using a web pages as your interface will probably give you better security depending on how you secure the server and will certainly make maintenance easier because all code and configuration will be kept in house. > I can picture putting a separate local database on each user's machine > and then merging the updates together in some fashion but I'd strongly > prefer to have everyone sharing the same database. > +1 -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |
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Ping: Roedy Green or anyone else familiar with JWS (Java Web Start) Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> - 2016-04-26 17:33 -0400
Re: Ping: Roedy Green or anyone else familiar with JWS (Java Web Start) Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2016-04-26 19:03 -0700
Re: Ping: Roedy Green or anyone else familiar with JWS (Java Web Start) Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> - 2016-04-26 22:32 -0400
Re: Ping: Roedy Green or anyone else familiar with JWS (Java Web Start) Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-04-27 09:46 +0000
Re: Ping: Roedy Green or anyone else familiar with JWS (Java Web Start) Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> - 2016-04-27 14:36 -0400
Re: Ping: Roedy Green or anyone else familiar with JWS (Java Web Start) Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-05-02 05:34 -0700
Re: Ping: Roedy Green or anyone else familiar with JWS (Java Web Start) Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2016-05-16 08:28 -0700
Re: Ping: Roedy Green or anyone else familiar with JWS (Java Web Start) Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2016-05-16 08:31 -0700
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