(Slightly more-complete answers.) On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Paul Romero <pa...@rcom-software.com> wrote:
> One more important detail: The Android app. is not a browser. > That doesn't matter a whole lot. > My general question is what is the best and most commonly deployed way >>> to transfer data between a mobile Android based platform and a >>> MySQL database on a Linux server ? >> >> There is no "most-commonly deployed way". You could write it in pure Java, use a framework, use NodeJS, use Rails, use Elixir/Phoenix, PHP, Perl, whatever. Essentially endless. > More specifically, is Struts a >>> good choice or am I barking up the wrong tree ? >> >> Depends. Do you have a lot of Java experience? Don't already have another Java framework deployed (e.g., SpringMVC, Play, Grails)? Have the hardware necessary to run it at the loads you're expecting? > Also, it would be >>> highly desirable to address the issue of binary data. >>> >> Do you want to talk via sockets, or a web service? > The aforementioned framework requires a "web service" to be implemented >>> on the Linux server. My understanding is that such a "web service" >>> executes PHP code, embedded in HTML, to perform MySQL operations, and >>> converts MySQL responses to JSON format. >>> >> Web services can be implemented in anything. Dave
