I need to develop an application with following features and want to
understand if GWT can be used to develop this application or is it the
right technology to use ?
1) Backend is in Java and uses MySQL
2) Desktop based UI to create some datafiles and data will be stored
in MySQL DB. This app will generate the data.
3) A desktop based application using which users can get access to
that database on a CD. This app will provide access to data locally
stored on a CD.
4) A web interface using which users can get access to the database
remotely. This app will provide remote access to data.
For local access also, we have the flexibility to install and run the
web server.
Should I use GWT for the UI part or should I use some thing else ? I
would like to provide common UI, look & feel for local and remote
access to data.
Please advice.
Thanks,
Deep
As you can run the web server also locally, I don't see a problem to re-use the same GWT app for both use cases.
It would be harder if your users must communicate with both the remote and local server from the same browser window/tab, at the same time. That can only be done with JSONP, which is possible with GWT, but it's not as nice as GWTRPC.
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I have 3 different applications
ASP.NET web application
Java Desktop application
Android Studio mobile application
These 3 applications have the same database and and they need to connect from any part of the world with an internet connection. They share almost all the information, so, if you move something in one application it has to update the information in the other 2 applications.
I have the database on a physical server and I want to know how best to make this connection.
I have searched but I couldn't find if I have to connect directly to the server with some SQL Server, using Web Service, or something like that.
I hope someone could help.
Thank you.
I believe the best way is to first create a Web API layer (REST/SOAP) that will be used to perform all the relative operations in the centralized DB. Once that is setup, any of your applications written in any language can use the exposed web API methods to manipulate the data of the same DB.
If you are looking at a global solution - will you have multiple copies of the applications in different parts of the world as well?
In this scenario you should be looking at a cloud-hosted database with some form of geo-replication so that you can keep latency to a minimum.
There are no restrictions on the number of applications that can connect to a specific database - you do not have to create a different database for each and you may be able to reuse Stored Procedures between applications if they perform the same task.
I would however look at the concept of schemas - any database objects that are specific to one app should be separated from other - so put them in a schema for "App1". Shared objects can be in a shared schema.
I'm still new to java programming and web application development, though I just want to ask is it possible to create a java program and a website that has a single database(most preferably phpmyadmin) meaning the java program and the website are more likely connected through the use of this particular database. If what I'm suggesting is not possible then is their a way to create a java program that is directly connected to the website?
is it possible to create a java program and a website that has a
single database
yes, your Web-database-server should be configured to allowe remote connections
but this is not recommended due to security issues.
alternative: using web services
most preferably phpmyadmin
phpmyadmin is just a grafical web user interface which enables the admin of a Database to manage SQL Services
We are developing a cloud ERP product using java and want to provide the users to have an option to work either with a local database file or the database on the cloud. To some of our customers, their data is very sensitive and they do not want their data stored on web server, instead want to have the database on their own server/pc.
Will this kind of offering be technically viable, secure & effective to implement and maintain? If so, can anyone recommend the best work around for this kind of architecture where the application on our cloud server can work seamlessly with the local database?
Many Thanks
LJ
For your customers concerned with security, maybe using a local datastore such as MySQL running on a local server and a local instance of the ERP product, also running on a local server. And I would advise encrypting all sensitive columns using something like AES_ENCRYPT() -- even on this local database.
Otherwise I don't know of a way to run a hosted App with a secured local database without introducing all kinds of data vulnerabilities.
If I had an application that stored information in its datastore. Is there a way to access that same datastore from a second application?
Yes you can, with the Remote APIs.
For example, you can use Remote API to access a production datastore
from an app running on your local machine. You can also use Remote API
to access the datastore of one App Engine app from a different App
Engine app.
You need to configure the servlet (see documentation for that) and import the appengine-remote-api.jar in your project (You can find it ..\appengine-java-sdk\lib\)
Only remember that Ancestor Queries with Remote APIs are not working (See this)
You didn't mention why you wanted to access the datastore of one application from another, but depending on the nature of your situation, App Engine modules might be a solution. These are structurally similar to separate applications, but they run under the same application "umbrella" and can access a common datastore.
You can not directly access datastore of another application. Your application must actively serve that data in order for another application to be able to access it. The easiest way to achieve this is via Remote API, which needs a piece of code installed in order to serve the data.
If you would like to have two separate code bases (even serving different hostnames/urls), then see the new AppEngine Modules. They give you ability to run totally different code on separate urls and with different runtime settings (instances), while still being on one application sharing all stateful services (datastore, tasks queue, memcache..).
I have a Java desktop application which stores data into a SQLite db every 10 mins which is stored locally in the user's system. I have a cloud interface to visualize this data which uses PHP and MySQL.
I need to fetch data from the local db of the users. I think I will have to write a RESTful web service in Java so that the database which is locally stored is not exposed and the data is obtained by the web service.
I am a bit confused with this. Am I going in the right direction here?
You're on the right track. Your desktop application can connect to the cloud server and upload its information. You'll need to create an http request in your desktop application.
I think you should maybe approach this the other way round, rather than the web service getting data from your local system, your local system should upload its data to your cloud interface, perhaps using a RESTful web service on the server rather than the client.
Hope that helps.