Bob La Quey wrote:
Hmm ... previous reply before realty reading this.
I need to start by characterizing the application's
online/offline needs carefully then I will start looking
at solutions including rolling our own.
Again I note that this trip has been good in that it
sensitized me to some of the issues.
[snip]
Do you really need to work with whole files, or just data? If the data
can be expressed in a form that fits in a database then you have a whole
world of options for synchronizing between offline and online, since
those are problems that have been worked on for a long time. Hell, I've
even done it using old Paradox files instead of a real database. I'll
bet Lan's done it with dBase.
Java has some useful features, including cached datasets and the Derby
database <http://db.apache.org/derby/> that can be used for offline work
and synchronization.
Gus
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