Help for a project

[boyScout]

Hi guys, I'm doing my final year project about criminal record using
java but I still don't know what to use. I want the database to be
accessed to any user who has an access from any police stations with a
country. Should I use servlets or just something like java swing and
networking (socket)? I mean, suppose police has many station through
the country and any police user with this right should access the
database and even enter new record for any criminal. Please just tell
me what to do, about which technology to use servlet or java swing.
Thanks

 

[Lew]

which technology to use servlet or java swing.

That depends on whether you want the users to access via HTML or custom
networking.

Usually it is better to map out the user experience first, then figure out
which approach best supports that experience, than to work it the other way
'round.

In principle, once you have figured out exactly how the application should
behave, both logically and interactively, then you can implement a common
business logic foundation and layer different front ends onto it. That way you
could have both a Swing-based application and a Web app for the same
functionality.

- Lew

 

[boyScout]

Most of the users are familiar to web browser. So my question was
about, between web-app and swing-app, which one should be more secure
and reliable in terms of access. Thanks

 

[Andrew Thompson]

Most of the users are familiar to web browser. So my question was
about, between web-app and swing-app, which one should be more secure

Swing app. I cannot imagine you could
(reliably) offer secure web access, using
'any old browser that might visit'.

and reliable in terms of access.

Hard to say. That would depend on the
end users possession of ..
- Swing deployment: a JVM of suitable
minimum version (Java 1.2+, or 1.4+
for better Swing), or the ability to
upgrade if necessary*.
- HTML based web-app.: The variety of
browsers used, each of which might have
there own quirky differences, and bugs.

* Possibly launched using web-start,
for ease of deployment for the user.

Andrew T.