If it weren't for the nasty issue of getting a Java applet to talk to a form, which is a real pain due to the issue of getting a certificate for your applet, I'd recommend that because it the whole shebang is pretty straightforward: write a simple GUI to act as your form, write the code to access the database using JDBC, and deploy the applet.
I use Java servlets to talk to HTML forms all the time and that is pretty easy, assuming you don't mind taking the time to learn about servlets and a container like Tomcat. Since servlets are widely used, you should probably think of the time needed to learn servlets as an investment in your future that will make you more employable. Then again, you might be really tired of learning new stuff at this point ;-) I found Perl to be pretty straight-forward for doing program/application interactions. I've also found that database access isn't bad from Perl. I've never tried accessing MySQL from Perl but I've accessed DB2 and that was no great challenge so MySQL shouldn't be any harder. I might get an argument from others but I think jscript (a.k.a. javascript) is probably your poorest choice. When I looked into accessing a database from javascript a year or two ago, I couldn't find *anything* on how to do it and got no replies when I posted to a Javascript newsgroup to ask how. I can't comment on the difficulty of using C++, VB, or CGI; I've never really used those so I have no opinion. Overall, I'd say a Java servlet or a Perl program are definitely your best bets from the technologies you mentioned. Just my two cents worth, Rhino ----- Original Message ----- From: "Walt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rhino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 2:45 PM Subject: Re: Newbie question > I recently graduated from college, BS in computer science, I am familiar with a variety of languages including C++, Java, VB, jscript, perl, cgi and sql. I used VB in the past for a front end on MS access. I have not yet landed a job so I thought learning mySql and creating a some sort of form that could up date the db woul dbe nice. The big question is where to begin, which language to use for a simple form and how to hook the form to the db. > > tia Walt > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rhino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Walt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 12:10 AM > Subject: Re: Newbie question > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Walt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 8:00 AM > > Subject: Newbie question > > > > > > > I need a little advice on where to get started. I want to create a db and > > simple form that will populate the db. Which language is best? What should > > I read to help me along? > > > > That's pretty hard to answer since you haven't said anything about your > > skills, your environment, etc. > > > > Java is a really neat language but there's a pretty substantial learning > > curve to it. If you already know one or more programming languages, you > > should say so; it's quite possible that the language you already know can be > > used to do the work you require. > > > > If you are doing this work strictly on your own and for yourself, you can > > choose pretty much any language like Java, Perl, Php, C, C++, etc. On the > > other hand, if you are part of an IT shop, you should probably use the shop > > language, whatever it is. If you are doing this work for a customer and will > > hand maintenance of the program over to them, you should choose a language > > that your customer can support. > > > > Etc. etc. > > > > There are many possible options but the best one depends on your situation. > > > > Rhino > > > > > > -- > > MySQL General Mailing List > > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
