I appreciate some help regarding a personal
java project I am doing. (This is actually slightly modified version of Video Store at javaranch cattle drive)
Some intro to that:
I have a small application with one JTable, two buttons and few text fields for data entry. Table displays list of videos from database (MySql). And the buttons, one to add a new video to the video store and one to remove video.
Now I want to expand this application by introducing users to the Video store (this idea - courtesy of Ulf Dittmer). New users should be able to register and old users should be able to login with id/pwd.
And every user should be able to check out selected videos .
So I should create an account for each user.
This is where I am stuck. Where to store user information other than than id/pwd? Like user-borrowed videos etc. How is this usually done in commercial apps? I browsed the web but did not find specific design issues. Can someone please point to a resource that explains such things?
Thanks!