RE: Looking for suggestions on architecture of project

[EP...@upstate.com]

Well, first off, I use the microsoft JDBC ODBC driver, however that is
against MSSqlServer. I don't know about tieing into Access.  However, any
lessons learned would be of great value.

I have found Torque to be dead simple to use, and relatively robust.  Make
sure you go with Turbine 2.3 as it has many bug fixes etc.  The TDK can be
difficult to work your way through however.

Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Douglass [mailto:r.douglass@onlinehome.de]
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 4:31 PM
To: turbine-user@jakarta.apache.org
Subject: Looking for suggestions on architecture of project


I recently discovered Turbine and the TDK and would like to use the
framework, or components from it, to implement a project that I've just been
handed. It would be great if I could get a bit of advice from some of you
who've already had experience with this software, so that I don't have to
fall into every single hole along the way! Here's the project, in a
nutshell:

I've been given a MS Access database with a Windows GUI front-end. The GUI
is not web-enabled, so only one client ever opens the database at a time.
Upon first inspection, neither the database schema nor the types of queries
and updates done on it are particularly complicated. The customer wants to
dispose of the gui and make a web application from the db. I definitely want
to use Velocity templates to design the output to the client, and from doing
a quick read of the documentation I think I'm going to be ok with the
template to Java object binding etc. I also want to build on my experience
using Tomcat, which I use daily with proprietary software at work. What
would be really helpful for me to discus would be the database connection
layer. I've written database connection code in college, but since I've been
working, I've not touched this layer as our software at work hides it all
(this is a weekend project). What tools would you, the experienced Turbine
user, use to complete this project?

Thanks for your wisdom!

-Robert Douglass


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