"Steve Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It is not a web-based app, rather browser based. Many brigades do not have > net access at their stations, they might only have someone there once a > fortnight, so it isn't viable. Also this app might also be used on a > notebook at a remote location...where there is often no mobile phone > coverage. > > In fact, my mistake too...it is written in ASP/VBScript/MSaccess because > that is the language I knew at the time. That's why it is browser based. I > have since moved on (ahead?) and use PHP/mySQL.
One of the up-and-coming technologies is having javascript applications that communication via "remote procedure calls" to a server. You've probably heard of AJAX which is a method of communicating the information between the browser application and the server. There are toolkits that make this kind of thing very easy. For example, go to http://www.qooxdoo.org and click on the "demo" link. The backend, the server side, can be whatever you like. I wrote a PHP backend and there's also a Java backend. Both are included with qooxdoo. You write the stubs that allow your javascript application to make specific remote procedure calls. You can link to whatever database you like, in the backend. PHP has access to sqlite (and nearly every other database in existence). I don't do Java, but I'm sure there are Java bindings for sqlite. Either of these would let your application run nicely in the browser, avoiding the hassles of writing a stand-alone application. Cheers, Derrell ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
