Re: File Streams in Pre-1.2 Java

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From: Dion Gillard
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 00:00

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In article <87v1qu$cqu1@bornews.borland.com>, blevine@cfl.rr.com says...
> Let me get this straight.  Applets cannot write data back to the server?
> 
> What I've been trying to develop is an applet for a catalog web page that
> will read from a database, so that it will only allow the user to select an
> item if it is in stock.  Thus it would need to update the inventory table
> when a purchase was made.  Is this not possible from an applet?  Is it time
> to crack open the CGI books?
> 
> Brian Levine
Applets can write data back to the server, but not as files. Using JDBC 
you could easily update the inventory DB.

The issue is whether or not you want every internet client being able to 
access your database....

dIon

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From: Dion Gillard <dion@multitask.com.au>
Subject: Re: File Streams in Pre-1.2 Java
Date: 2000/03/12
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