--- Brett Parker brettp@stu.uea.ac.uk wrote:
d) IF not web based - um, how's it going to work??
Badly? We want solutions not problems, ne ideas?
/me gets sick...
/me dodges the digestive pyrotechnics /me thinks of an idea.
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How about a java program written to utilise the Java Database connectivity (JDBC) to get the data from mysql. If using Java 1.2 with Swing a really nice UI can be had, if you create the DB I'll have a play with the Java stuff (if I get the JVM to install that is). Failing that a web based system siting on apache on the local machine but only accessable by the librarian - the one with it on there machine.
Its an idea.
OK - it could be done as a java server process on the webserver/some server somewhere, that way we could have a java client or a web client...the java server could spit/recieve XML and all could be well in the world...
XML != nice. HTML does the job fine.
me, sick, never (Oh, did I mention that I've done that sorta stuff before, perl talking to java is "fun", nearly as fun as java talking to CGIs).
/me = C and Java apprentice programmer and obeyer of the KISS principle
Thanks
D
PS one of these days I will learn a proper language AKA Lisp and write some decent type programs.
Cheers,
Brett
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