Hello! I have been out of Java for the past year and a half. At that time, JDBC in Applets was just too immature to be used (my opinion of course).
Now, I'm trying to see what is out there now. I am starting to play with NetBeans and I am curious about the best way to use JDBC. Is it yet possible to access databases in Java as easily as it is in Visual Basic? In VB, you just place fields on the screen and set a property for the name of the database field and you're done (more or less).
Thanks!
Mark Lehrer
p.s. NetBeans seems nice, though slow and obviously a .0 release.
Is there another environment that I should consider? Also, how
is JIT for Linux coming along? Sorry for throwing so many topics
at once; but the archives are silent on these issues.
