Article about Derby and Ajax based on Francois Orsini's "Database in a Browser Demo"

[Susan Cline <ho...@pacbell.net>]

Francois Orsini [1] created a demo for ApacheCon in San Diego last year
which demonstrated how to user Derby from within a browser.  His talk was very
well received at the conference.
 
Based on his work I wrote an article [2] which includes a sample address book application 
which embeds Derby and a Jetty web server in a Firefox browser.  Derby acts as
the data repository, Jetty is used to host a controller servlet and respond to http
requests and Ajax technologies are used to enhance the look and feel of the
application as well as to improve the overall responsiveness of the application.
 
All source, html files and JavaScript files are included.  
 
Susan
 
 
[1] http://www.nabble.com/Derby-in-a-browser-demo-now-available%21%21-tf1171149.html#a3076994
 
[2] http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/dm-0607cline/

Re: Article about Derby and Ajax based on Francois Orsini's "Database in a Browser Demo"

[ho...@pacbell.net]

Hi David,
 
Thanks - it sounds like the version you will be coming up with is another good
way to show how well Derby integrates into numerous environments.  I'll be interested 
in seeing  your app, paper / article, etc., if you end up sharing it.
 
Susan

----- Original Message ----
From: David Van Couvering <Da...@Sun.COM>
To: Derby Discussion <de...@db.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 2, 2006 2:45:01 PM
Subject: Re: Article about Derby and Ajax based on Francois Orsini's "Database in a Browser Demo"


Great stuff, Susan!  I've been working on a very similar version, but 
I'm trying out DWR (http://getahead.ltd.uk/dwr) instead of using XML. 
It's a much easier programming model (IMHO) and only adds 185K to the 
total download size.

I'm also trying to use Java Persistence instead of JDBC, but that's much 
more heavyweight.  It again really simplifies the programming, but it 
adds another 2MB to the total download size (I'm getting the 
implementation from Glassfish).  I could use Pack200 to make that 
smaller, but still, that's a heavy chunk of change.

Good to know about XMLSERIALIZE, I didn't know about that!

David

Susan Cline wrote:
> Francois Orsini [1] created a demo for ApacheCon in San Diego last year
> which demonstrated how to user Derby from within a browser.  His talk was very
> well received at the conference.
>  
> Based on his work I wrote an article [2] which includes a sample address book application 
> which embeds Derby and a Jetty web server in a Firefox browser.  Derby acts as
> the data repository, Jetty is used to host a controller servlet and respond to http
> requests and Ajax technologies are used to enhance the look and feel of the
> application as well as to improve the overall responsiveness of the application.
>  
> All source, html files and JavaScript files are included.  
>  
> Susan
>  
>  
> [1] http://www.nabble.com/Derby-in-a-browser-demo-now-available%21%21-tf1171149.html#a3076994
>  
> [2] http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/dm-0607cline/

Re: Article about Derby and Ajax based on Francois Orsini's "Database in a Browser Demo"

[David Van Couvering <Da...@Sun.COM>]

Great stuff, Susan!  I've been working on a very similar version, but 
I'm trying out DWR (http://getahead.ltd.uk/dwr) instead of using XML. 
It's a much easier programming model (IMHO) and only adds 185K to the 
total download size.

I'm also trying to use Java Persistence instead of JDBC, but that's much 
more heavyweight.  It again really simplifies the programming, but it 
adds another 2MB to the total download size (I'm getting the 
implementation from Glassfish).  I could use Pack200 to make that 
smaller, but still, that's a heavy chunk of change.

Good to know about XMLSERIALIZE, I didn't know about that!

David

Susan Cline wrote:
> Francois Orsini [1] created a demo for ApacheCon in San Diego last year
> which demonstrated how to user Derby from within a browser.  His talk was very
> well received at the conference.
>  
> Based on his work I wrote an article [2] which includes a sample address book application 
> which embeds Derby and a Jetty web server in a Firefox browser.  Derby acts as
> the data repository, Jetty is used to host a controller servlet and respond to http
> requests and Ajax technologies are used to enhance the look and feel of the
> application as well as to improve the overall responsiveness of the application.
>  
> All source, html files and JavaScript files are included.  
>  
> Susan
>  
>  
> [1] http://www.nabble.com/Derby-in-a-browser-demo-now-available%21%21-tf1171149.html#a3076994
>  
> [2] http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/dm-0607cline/