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Java Forum / Databases / August 2004Java database app. example ?
Hi all, I am looking for example of standalone Java database desktop application that uses Firebird & JayBird 1.5 or less (or anyone SQL Db server) Can someone tell me where I can found such kind of application ? -And yet another question : where I can learn more about developing database desktop application /what exactly tools should to use, (more important:) design of user interface, persistence , ... someone book maybe ? - Whether someone uses db-aware controls and what exactly ? So, I want to know complete set of tools for developing quality Java database desktop application ... - thanks in advance... Look at http://butler.sourceforge.net. It has a set of data-aware swing components. /Fredrik For DB-aware Swing components, have a look at SwingSet as well: http://swingset.sf.net > Hi all, > I am looking for example of standalone Java database desktop application [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > - thanks in advance... > For DB-aware Swing components, have a look at SwingSet as well: > http://swingset.sf.net - tx, but this is strange situation: over entire Internet, I cannot find useful Java database desktop app. demo which demonstrates the best practices, design of rich user interface, persistence mechanism (disregard of underlying database or JDBC driver) ?!? Nor appropriate tutorials. There exists a couple of open-source projects (like SwingSet) but in 0.x versions, still a little useful :-( The most frequently answer I can see is cca. : 'you sholud read some books about Swing & design patterns '. Ok, and what now ? Still I don't know how develop such kind of application...(probably Java is not for me ;-) Indeed, JBuilder for example commes with some demo app, but this is primiraly connected with JDataStore & Borland's prebuilt db-aware controls >>Hi all, >>I am looking for example of standalone Java database desktop application [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >> >>- thanks in advance... > - tx, but this is strange situation: over entire Internet, I cannot find > useful Java database desktop app. demo which demonstrates the best > practices, design of rich user interface, persistence mechanism > (disregard of underlying database or JDBC driver) ?!? Yes, I agree. The main problem is that all mainstream persitance frameworks - Hibernate, EJB or JDO - don't have any GUI components. They are pure server side frameworks. The main reason for this is that object oriented evangelists don't like relational databases. Therefore they want to hide the database structure deep down in the server. This makes it impossible to make db-aware GUI components. > Nor appropriate tutorials. There exists a couple of open-source projects > (like SwingSet) but in 0.x versions, still a little useful :-( Because db-aware GUI components are rejected by the OO world, these kind of projects have very little resources. But don't give up, please help them instead. Besides I had a look at SwingSet and find it rather well-documented (a lot of code samples in the javadocs). And have a look at my project, http://butler.sourceforge.net. It is used in a production environment by several companies, and have tutorial, demo appliactions and javadocs. /Fredrik Agreed on all points. We're a small financial company porting a lot of database software to Java and couldn't find any reliable database-aware Swing controls. We tried JBuilder for while and were very discouraged by the limited functionality. There are some other solutions but most appear to be quite expensive, and I am of the opinion that database-aware components are a fundamental tool and should be readily available. That is why we designed SwingSet. We are using it in production software, but since we don't sell the software, we only have our own employees to deal with if we come across a glitch. We're trying to add and support features that we don't necessarily need for our own applications so that SwingSet will be a solid, general purpose toolkit. As an FYI, I did read in the latest JDJ that Sun is working on Swing extensions (JXTable, JXTree, JXEditor, etc.) that are designed to work with data. I haven't looked into these yet. -Brian > > - tx, but this is strange situation: over entire Internet, I cannot find > > useful Java database desktop app. demo which demonstrates the best [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > /Fredrik >> For DB-aware Swing components, have a look at SwingSet as well: >> http://swingset.sf.net [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > Indeed, JBuilder for example commes with some demo app, but this is > primiraly connected with JDataStore & Borland's prebuilt db-aware controls I have LGPL project, name is DataSet. There are some examples also. http://dataset.sohlman.com - Sampsa  Signature------------------------------------------- // Sampsa Sohlman // // My email can be found on my homepage // // http://sampsa.sohlman.com // ------------------------------------------- Free MagazinesGet these publications absolutely FREE for up to 12 months. There are no hidden fees and no obligation. Simply choose a title, complete the application form and submit it. 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