Desktop application for Multiple PC's

[Siddique Ansari]

I am making a desktop application which will be running on multiple PC's sharing the same Database. Should I use Socket programming? Please suggest me What to do?

[surlac surlacovich]

Siddique Ansari wrote:I am making a desktop application which will be running on multiple PC's sharing the same Database. Should I use Socket programming? Please suggest me What to do?

I see no way to avoid socket programming if you talking about PCs in network. JDBC will use sockets under the hood anyway.

[Henry Wong]

surlac surlacovich wrote:

Siddique Ansari wrote:I am making a desktop application which will be running on multiple PC's sharing the same Database. Should I use Socket programming? Please suggest me What to do?

I see no way to avoid socket programming if you talking about PCs in network. JDBC will use sockets under the hood anyway.

I believe the context of the question was in regards to "socket programming" -- not whether sockets are used "under the hood". If the DB is the only service that communicates with the applications, then JDBC alone could do the job. Otherwise, you will need some sort of network based communications, and yes, the socket library is probably the simplest choice.

Henry

[Siddique Ansari]

Henry Wong wrote:

surlac surlacovich wrote:

Siddique Ansari wrote:I am making a desktop application which will be running on multiple PC's sharing the same Database. Should I use Socket programming? Please suggest me What to do?

I see no way to avoid socket programming if you talking about PCs in network. JDBC will use sockets under the hood anyway.

I believe the context of the question was in regards to "socket programming" -- not whether sockets are used "under the hood". If the DB is the only service that communicates with the applications, then JDBC alone could do the job. Otherwise, you will need some sort of network based communications, and yes, the socket library is probably the simplest choice.

Henry

I need to share Both DB and Some word files. Can you suggest me best website for learning socket programming.

[Henry Wong]

Siddique Ansari wrote:
I need to share Both DB and Some word files. Can you suggest me best website for learning socket programming.

I don't know about best... but the Oracle tutorials is a safe place to start...

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/networking/sockets/

Henry

[surlac surlacovich]

Siddique Ansari wrote:

Henry Wong wrote:
... the socket library is probably the simplest choice.

I need to share Both DB and Some word files. Can you suggest me best website for learning socket programming.

I don't see that socket programming in this situation will be the simplest choice, because in this case OP will need to write both sides of socket communication, why to do that if OP can run Web Server (like Tomcat), deploy all necessary files there and simply download it via HTTP(S)?

[K. Tsang]

I don't think the OP intended to run this over the web hence Tomcat is out of the picture.

[Paul Clapham]

K. Tsang wrote:I don't think the OP intended to run this over the web hence Tomcat is out of the picture.

Well, that may be true, but until we know what the OP's application architecture is, it's too early to suggest how it should be implemented. Even the question of whether socket programming should be used is premature.