Re: Java GUI development - Mailing list pgsql-jdbc

From Vernon Wu
Subject Re: Java GUI development
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In response to Re: Java GUI development  (Bear Giles <bgiles@coyotesong.com>)
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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.

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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