Databases Reference
In-Depth Information
Chapter 34
Developing
Client/Server
RDBMS Applications
Using Java Servlets
and JDBC
Jonathan Held
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LIENT
SERVER
COMPUTING
IS
BY
NO
MEANS
A
NOVEL
CONCEPT
IT
HAS
.
BEEN
What is new, however,
is how the rise of the World Wide Web (circa 1992) impacted this computing
concept. Client/server computing, given this venue, has reached new ground
and its popularity is indelibly tied to the astounding success that the Internet
has seen. What makes the Web so attractive, in part, is the price — client
software is free. Using Netscape's Communicator or Microsoft's Internet
Explorer (or any other capable browser), one can get a multitude of informa-
tion on virtually any subject. The information has to be stored somewhere,
and, in most cases, it is kept in a relational database management system
(RDBMS), with which the browser (translate as client) interacts.
AROUND
NEARLY
AS
LONG
AS
THE
COMPUTER
What you'll need:
• Some prior knowledge of the Java programming language and Struc-
tured Query Language (SQL)
• Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.2
• Microsoft Access (MSACCESS)
• Sun's Servlet Software Development Kit (SDK)
• Web server software
If you think Web-based databases haven't caught on, you might want to
reconsider. Consider the Web search sites (Lycos, Yahoo, Excite, Metacrawler,
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