Howdy,
I'm just starting out on my dev assignment and there are a couple of questions I have. I looked through the posts and I didnt see an answer, so i was wondering if someone could share their thoughts. If the answer to any of these is: just do whatever you want, and just document it, thats fine too!
1) Unlock: it says "If an attempt is made to unlock a record that has not been locked by this connection, then no action is to be taken." Does this mean, i need to prevent a client from unlocking a record that a different client locked? if so, does anyone have any ideas about how to track users? IP address isnt enough...no way to get
thread ID's or ID's based on RMI or socket connections?
2) the local vs network modes: can someone elaborate on what this means exactly? i understand local means single user access only, but how do you do it "without networking"? does the client
applet connect directly to the DB file? does this just mean that the client and the server run on the same computer, just diff VMs(this doesnt seem that different - b/c for networking, it doesnt matter where the client is...)
any elaboration and thoughts will be most appreciated!