Re: Java GUI development - Mailing list pgsql-jdbc

From Tim Pizey
Subject Re: Java GUI development
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Msg-id 02060523370103.00859@linux
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In response to Re: Java GUI development  (Vernon Wu <vernonw@gatewaytech.com>)
Responses Re: Java GUI development
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On Wednesday 05 June 2002 04:31, Vernon Wu wrote:
> I also thought about having a JSP PostgreSQL front-end using JSTL. The
> implement shall be straight forward and can be done in a very short period
> of time. The only problem is the users need a Java Web container to run it.

Eugh, not JSP!
http://www.melati.org/ (CVS version) ships with Jetty which is small and
light.

cheers
Tim P


>
> 6/6/2002 3:15:12 AM, Bear Giles <bgiles@coyotesong.com> wrote:
> >> Is there anyone interested in collaborating on a Java GUI.
> >
> >That's been on my 'possible projects' list, so I may be interested
> >in contributing.  I've also been playing with some Tomcat JSP tags
> >that may be a good complement to this project.  The goal of these
> >tags is to make it easy to write "am I sane?" views of the database -
> >basically a dump of each table, but with links so that you can easily
> >navigate between the tables.
> >
> >E.g., if table foo has a foreign reference to table bar, then each
> >row in foo should have a link that shows the corresponding entry in
> >bar.  Contrawise, it would be nice if each row in bar had a link
> >that brought up all rows that accessed it.  (Then there's those
> >graphing applets that could show relationships between tables, and....
> >okay, I'll stop drooling now.)
> >
> >JSP may be a good prototype tool for a standalone application.
> >It allows formatting to be quickly changed, so people can try out
> >different approaches, and the "input" could be handled by JSP
> >that catches forms.
> >
> >> I am fairly
> >> confident I could handle the low end server interface to the tables, but
> >> am looking for someone with swing skills
> >
> >I think one of the desireable goals of this type of project is as
> >a demonstration of how to access the database through Java, and
> >thus the project should use JDBC unless something entirely outside
> >of its interface is required.  This also helps make the application
> >thin and fast, since it's not doing much beyond constructing JDBC
> >queries and formatting the results.
> >
> >Bear
> >
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