Database creation

From: melissa (melissa24_at_aol(no-spam).com)
Date: 08/19/04 

Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 08:36:02 -0700

Hello Everyone,

Please let me start by saying that I'm new to programming, but I've heard
from a lot of guys that it's best to create database applications in Java
because of the cross platform capabilities..

Is this true?

I cannot find any books on how to create a simple local (the data stays on
the computer's hard drive) database using Java.

Have I been misinformed? All I can find are books covering
distributed databases over the 'net.

If it's ok with you folks, I'd like to describe my needs and maybe that will
be of help to anyone willing to offer this confused girl some advice on how
best to proceed.

1. I need just a handfull of tables in a relational database
2. I'd like to have it be very small in terms of all the necessary
installation and support files, maybe even run on a Palm PDA
3. I'd like to be able to export and import data in "comma separated value"
(CSV) format
4. Possibly use a database engine so that if someone needed to open a
database file in Access, that they could
5. Could be installed on computers with relatively little hard drive space
available
6. I'd like to be able to sort the data returned in a query in some kind of
a form based report and maybe one that could be printed as well.

Thanks guys. I appreciate any advice you would be kind enough to offer.

Melissa

PS. Are there any on-line resources available for someone like me to get me
off and running? Any good books that cover developing such a small scale
database in Java?

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