Re: Database access for server and client

bartona@xxxxxxxx wrote:
Does anybody have any suggestion as to which method is preferable? The
end users who will be running this application are not very computer
savvy and might not be able to figure out browser messages like "Your
browser understands the <APPLET> tag but isn't running the applet, for
some reason." For this reason I thought that the Java Web Start method
might be preferable, but I have no idea how reliable this method is and
what kind of kinks I will have to work through.

I think you should avoid applets because of the problems you mentioned. Compatibilty. You could use web start (it work OK on appropriate Java version) OR https and server programming.

I also wonder if the Microsoft .net environment might offer an
alternative (our web server is Microsoft IIS and the clients are all
Windows XP or Windows 2000).

There are C# alterantive for Java web start in VS 2005 but I cannot remember the name. Google :
http://www.google.com/search?q=c%23+replacement+java+web+start&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official



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