Re: What is the best package for creating a web enabled database?

If the application is to link to the net, FTP or a similar protocol is needed anyway. Nothing 'extra' to learn. Since the website is the basic idea that advice was asked about, structuring it is also already something that needs to be learned. Nothing 'extra' Since a standard 'exe' program is what they asked for, I assume that programming in some standard laguage is also already known, and again leaves nothing extra to learn.

So, your only issue is about needing to know what XML format to use for the data - but that is something the user can decide, so there is nothing 'extra' to learn there.

Compare that with the 'oddities' of Lotus Notes and you must see why I think it would be a daft way to go.

On Wed, 05 Jul 2000 16:39:28 GMT, robin.stoddartstones_at_btinternet.com (Robin Stoddart-Stones) wrote:

>So, as a simple web enabling system, with minimal coding, you suggest.
>
>a) Learn Java, VB or C++
>b) Learn the necessary Web /XML protocols
>c) Learn to structure your website
>d) FTP
>e) a database
>
>Then its all trivial?
>
>Have Fun
>Robin.
>
>
>On Tue, 04 Jul 2000 14:37:19 GMT, mark_at_mpreston.demon.co.uk (Mark
>Preston) wrote:
>
>>ROFL - Lotus Notes!! Is that a serious suggestion?
>>
>>Build a snappy little Java, VB or C++ program that structures your
>>data with XML tags. Don't worry about the Schema or DTD (though it
>>might be a good idea when you design the XML format).
>>
>>Read your data off the net, move through it with your snappy little
>>program until you get almost to the end (just before the very last
>>tag) and then add your data. FTP it back to the net. Job done.
>>
>>To use / share the data, another snappy little program to read the
>>data, check for tags and output the content. Again, don't bother with
>>the Schema or DTD, just straightforward text manipulation. If you
>>really want to, you can create the data as CSV and import it into any
>>reasonable database.
>>
>>On Sun, 02 Jul 2000 12:39:45 GMT, sriniv79_at_my-deja.com wrote:
>>
>>[snip]
>>>
>>>There are two excellent mature products to fit in this arena. First is
>>>Lotus Notes. It comes with a 'so-called' built in database, which will
>>>fit your requirements more than sufficiently. It is a very easy to use
>>>and program. You can download the software free from Lotus/IBM website.
>>>There are about a zillion books on getting you started. Lotus Notes is
>>>still the king of replication technology. You dial-in or connect to the
>>>Internet, the underlying replication engine automatically syncs up your
>>>data and images without any additional programming.
>>ROFL
>>--
>>Mark A Preston BSc, FIAP
>>The Magpie's Nest
>>mark_at_mpreston.demon.co.uk
>
 

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Mark A Preston BSc, FIAP
The Magpie's Nest
mark_at_mpreston.demon.co.uk