One possibility is to treat your "backend" as a service. Build in a mini web server, and expose the data list/update/delete methods as an API[SOAP, REST, whatever]
So, for example, to get a list of all items in office 1, the url might be http://localhost:8887/listItems?oid=1 And that returns data in some format, for example and readability, CSV response itemid,itemname,itemlocation 005,computer,desk 009,cablemodem,shelf Than your frontend application can be designed in many different ways, and they get their data from the backend using the API If you wanted a PHP solution, that could be put on a web server and run locally. If you wanted another Java app, that can be compiled and run indepedently etc This also means that you have the ability to provide your application in different ways. For those who don't want to run it locally, you could run the backend on your own web server and give them access to it. You can also design a PHP frontend to be hosted remotely on your server, so if their at a friends house they can go to the webserver frontend on his machine and show them their new cool app without bringing their computer along. Note: the above example lacked security. For a real app, you would want to have some sort of logon/credentialling step and then those credentials would be passed for all future data requests in addition to the the other commands and variables. On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 8:50 PM, selyah <sely...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello Guys: > I am hoping that I can get a direction to take on this issue. I have > designed a back-end program using Java. The purpose of this program is to > be used as an inventory of items in the home or small office. I could use > PHP embeded into HTML, but then I would have to make it a part of the > browser, which is not my intension (at least i think ). > I am using Java because of its cross platform capability. > The issue is, can anyone direct me on a interface to use that would serve > as a front-end for this program. > I have never done front end programming before that was not related to a > database so I am a bit at a lost as to how or where to begin. > Thanks in advance > Ian > > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation >
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