[dundee] Database front end - any ideas?

[Barry Carr]

Rick Moynihan wrote:
> On 08/02/2008, Barry Carr <barry at benericht.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi Jen,
>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> A bunch of us have a database project to do and I was wondering if
>>> anyone had any ideas for what we could use as a front end?
>>>
>>> We were thinking of maybe a having web interface. I believe the back end
>>> has to be Oracle. Preferably cross platform (mixture of windows, linux
>>> and OS X developers), and also if it requires an install it should be
>>> something we can all get our hands on easily.
>> There's quite a lot to choose from. If you're set on a web front end then you might want to try
>> Ruby-On-Rails. Free to download and deploy and its got quite good tool support Netbeans 6.0, (XP,
>> Linux, OS X - runs on the JVM) and TextMate (OS X). Rails has excellent DB support but may struggle
>> if you're expecting a lot of visitors to the site. Deploying a rails app can also be a bit of a pain
>> too. There are also a couple of JVM alternatives, like Grails (Ruby on rails like framework for
>> Groovy) and JRuby-On-Rails (Netbeans has direct support for this too).
>>
>> If you want a desktop app then you can choose between Mono (although I'm not sure how good its DB
>> support is) or the JVM. If you go for the latter then I wouldn't use Java but have a look at Groovy
>> or Scala instead. Groovy and Scala should be able to use all Java libraries and frameworks that are
>> currently available and both of these languages are waaay ahead of Java esp. Scala. If you use the
>> JVM you might also want to take a look at Hibernate which is an Object-relational mapping framework.
>>
>> There is loads more to choose from but the above should point you at the current mainstream.
> 
> Now, now, Barry I'm not sure any of those other than perhaps Rails and
> Hibernate are mainstream! :-)  Sure, they're all generating a lot of
> interest amongst tech bloggers and the like and have many compelling
> reasons for adoption but they're definitely not mainstream... They're
> just fashionable to talk about :-)

Damn, you caught me out ;-)
Cheers
Barry

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