~hey
ok--i need to quit researching and testing, and get on with
applications. one way or another, make a decision and get back to
work.
what does the majority of programmers do for displaying data in a one-
to-many relational database?
brief history: i come from using Borland Delphi (object-pascal) where
it was pretty brainless in setting up editable table/grid displays.
moved from there to Java, recognizing the whole platform independant
thing and wanting to move forward. so purchased Borland JBuilder...
same thing: basically drag and drop components in the ide, set
properties and presto, you had an application where you can edit data
from a gui. Then came the bomb (for me)--borland removed all such
libraries/components from their latest release and dropped all sup****t
for there data-aware components. hey-whatever...fortunately their
dbms is fully JDBC compliant, so at least i can move forward.
so after much research, i find that there really is not much for data-
aware component libraries for use in ide's out there! i have read the
JDBC API reference cover to cover a couple of times, researched these
newsgroups quite a bit and just would like to confirm a direction i
should be going. you know it's funny--all the examples for jdbc do
not have graphical displays (ie: windows)! it is all just console
output. hey-even i can do that!
it appears that i should just forget looking for component libraries
and do all the data stuff / graphical stuff in code. for example--can
you bind a data grid to a database table so that when you edit the
grid cell it updates the table data? how do you do that? is this
easily done or does it involve a lot of additional coding?
any help would be greatly appreciated. to me, this appears to be a
~very gray area.
dazed and confused...
-mark
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