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can someone point me in the right direction

 
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this is my scenario. Information is being sent to a
database ie MS SQL 7.0 (this info consists of several
dozen fields being filled in by clients). These forms
must then be divided equally amongst office admin people. I need an application which runs on a thread and checks every 5 min
if new forms have arrived; and then passing it to next admin
person. I would have a pointer to the last individual who
received a form. So everyone would obtain a fair share of the work. My question could this app be a Servlet(sorry i know very little about servlets)? If not what would be a better
choice? And last question could i drop this app on the SQL?
Just a little confused where the app would reside
Thank u very much for your time

sorry i should have included more info. I will be using
Java Web Start to distribute the app. The application will
sit on the users desktop. And the office admin people will
have an app on their desktop, that will be reading the forms
from the SQL.


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You might want to look a using JMS. Though it might be a bit of over kill, it is designed for situation just like yous (as far as I understand you app ). You could also do this using RMI as well. Kind of like a distributed chat application. There are lot of examples of these on the web from which you could gleen the basic structure. JMS is described here
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Networking/messaging/
Hope this helps.
Sean
 
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