Originally posted by Steve Knight:
Hey guys,
My company is building a system where the front end client is an applet running in browser which then needs to display and manipulate data from a database on the server, preferably through a Servlet or RMI on the middle tier. Does JBuilder or any of the other big IDEs provide any wizards or automatic data-binding features that would bind the GUI components in the applet to the tables/columns in the database (automatically generating the Servlet or RMI code that relays the JDBC calls)?
Or something similar to this?
Thanks,
Steve Knight
JBuilder does have a very good set of swing components that will bind to what they call dataset objects. Dataset objects talk with the database or otherwise contain data from the database. So it really takes no work to build an applet that displays a table of information contained in your database and resolves changes back to the database, for example. Just point and click type stuff. If you want to do Applet-Servlet, or Applet-RMI communication however, you will have to do some of the work yourself.
I had actually done a quick proof-of-concept of Applet-Servlet-RMI communication with JBuilder. It took a bit of work to get things working smootly, but I guess it probably would have taken more work had I not been using their datasets and dataset aware components.
[This message has been edited by Jason Menard (edited December 13, 2001).]