user function recommended?

2001-01-12 Thread fractals
Hi, This is a WHERE clause I have to dynamically create everytime I do a query to my geographic database. It's fairly obvious: every object in the database is checked against a bounding box, which is a Rectangle with x=minx, y=miny, width=maxx, height=maxy: public static final String createR

encryption ?

2001-01-11 Thread fractals
Hi, I have to deploy a java GUI to a remote MySQL server. The GUI part is OK, but now I have some concerns about security issues, like: how could the conduit between the GUI and the database be secured (possibly encrypted) ? I think one solution would be to use SSL, but that implies SSL support o