Don,

Have you looked at Ruby on Rails.  It is a Java based enviroment, but you do
not
need to know Java to use it. (My understanding of it).  It is a quick and
dirty way
to get things running.  I am looking at it for a site that I would like to
get up.

Steven


On 1/24/07, Li, Don <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

 Thanks for the note, Steven.  The following URL,

http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-EclipseDbWebapps/article.html,

seems interesting in the sense that it sort of supports what I'd like to
do, however, a couple of things stand in the way.

·         Derby is unnecessary for my case, guess, I can bypass it

·         From the code sample, it seems that one has to write his own JSP
code, also, the sample does not seem to use MVC framework like FORM
interface and process are all bundled into one page …  Then what's the point
of plug-in?

·         And don't know if configuring the Web Tools Platform is going to
be pain in the b???



Am wondering if this is a good option for an interim solution (boss wants
something quick and dirty for now)



On the up side, my dev box already has TomCat and JRE installed



Regards,



Don Li


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*From:* Steven Pierce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
*Sent:* Wednesday, January 24, 2007 2:06 PM
*To:* user@forrest.apache.org
*Subject:* Re: OT: plugin for web access to a relational database



Don,



I have heard nothing but good about Eclipse. I was at the ApacheCon this
year

and it was one of the topics covered.



Steven



On 1/24/07, *Li, Don* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi,

This is sort of OT (off topic).  However, bear with me as an open source
newbie.  Here's what I want to do: finding an open source package that
would allow me to provide a Web-based interface to run some canned
reports and support dynamic queries off a SQL Server 2000 -based
database without writing my own JSP pages or at least making code
writing minimal.

Did a quick googling for it, it seems that Eclipse Web Tools Platform
(WTP) is an option.  Before I dive into it, I'd like to see if someone
here has done something similar, thoughts/comments?

Thanks.