Re: data storage format for a desktop application

Glenn Jackman wrote:
At 2008-11-14 03:09AM, "Zhang Weiwu" wrote:
[...]
XML is not considered because it is not binary format. Here I ask for
binary format is because the desktop application require user not easily
(easily means open it by NOTEPAD in Windows or do so after unzipped it)
parse the data from the storage. A software freedom guy would say user
should be able to do anything to /their/ data and software should not
prevent this. This is true and I totally agree. But in my case my
application users are not accessing "their" data, the data stored does
not belong to user and user did not create or purchase these data.

If you don't want your users to access your data, don't store it on
their machine. Store it centrally on your server, and let their client
software access it as needed.

Hi. we already have a server. this desktop application is for those who
want to access it offline.

It only needs to be as secure as that not readable for text editor.

If it must reside on the user's computer, by all means look for an
efficient database solution (I would recommend sqlite or metakit too),
but don't complain when someone extracts the data and looks at it.

Thanks for the info. I'll check both solutions.

.

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