Re: J2ME and JDBC, what's your preference?

On Thursday 04 December 2003 10:22 am, you wrote:
> I would like to know everyone's opinion on the best way to connect to an
> external database from a J2ME application. We all know that java.sql.*
> is not available on the J2ME platform, but there are some companies that
> make APIs that look similar to standard JDBC for J2ME devices.
>
> So, what's your preference? Oracle 9i Lite? Reqwireless? Pointbase? Are
> there others?

My preference would be to shoot the SQL statements to a servlet and let the
servlet handle connecting to the database and then encoding the result set.
This would give you the freedom to define your own result set encoding
standard while using standard JDBC off-device.

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Darryl L. Pierce <mcpierce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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