Hi Roman,

> > A local app with Eclipse.
>
> What kind of app you want to write? GUI? If yes, be ready to spend
> more time on UI than on database connectivity. In this case you can
> already start learning writing GUI applications in Java - be sure that
> JayBird 1.5 will be released before you learn Swing completely (Swing
> has the same position in Java as VCL in Delphi but from my POV is more
> complex than VCL) ;). You should check SWT (UI components from Eclipse
> project), some people say that SWT is easier/better than Swing.

Nope - no GUI at all :-)

> If you just want to learn using Java with Firebird, I would start with
> web applications (servlets and JSP).

Although it has been some years since I wrote a serious Java thingy,
I think I should be back to my previous level (eh, well - something)
soon enough.

As said - no GUI stuff, which, IMHO, is always a pain in Java...


With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - developer tool for InterBase, Firebird & MS SQL Server.
Upscene Productions
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