kook44
November 29th, 2005, 03:26 PM
Hi-
My professional experience centers around client and server side web development, as well as some procedural command-line type stuff. I am considering taking on a side project to build a desktop app. My question is: how do you store, retrieve, and manipulate data within a desktop app (as a rule of thumb)? I would prefer to have some kind of binary format over a straight text file. The app will contain a lot of relational data. For the sake of example - lets assume your typical textbook human resources application (employees that have salaries and addresses, that are in departments, etc...). There would be a GUI for data entry as well as some type of analysis and reporting. Is there a way to "embed" some type of sql in your application? Is it as simple as serializing objects and then using collections methods to parse them in java? what about other languages, like C++?
Desktop world is completely new to me. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
THX!
My professional experience centers around client and server side web development, as well as some procedural command-line type stuff. I am considering taking on a side project to build a desktop app. My question is: how do you store, retrieve, and manipulate data within a desktop app (as a rule of thumb)? I would prefer to have some kind of binary format over a straight text file. The app will contain a lot of relational data. For the sake of example - lets assume your typical textbook human resources application (employees that have salaries and addresses, that are in departments, etc...). There would be a GUI for data entry as well as some type of analysis and reporting. Is there a way to "embed" some type of sql in your application? Is it as simple as serializing objects and then using collections methods to parse them in java? what about other languages, like C++?
Desktop world is completely new to me. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
THX!