Posted by Kory Spansel on 2000-09-28
> My first suggestion off the top of my head, and something that pertains to > all of computer programming in general is to make sure that you modularize > your code. In this example, if you chose to go with a different back-end > if you had your code broken up properly it wouldn't be a hair pulling task > to change it all. I will modularize my code, Java makes it pretty easy to do. > As far as a back-end goes, without knowing more of the specific > specifications of your proposed project my gut instinct would be to > recommend that you look into using JDBC as a back-end to store user > information and perhaps communication between your threads for information > like chatting. (It is going to run over the Internet correct? TCP/IP would > be a good means of communication between client-server.) I don't have any experience with JDBC, is it fast enough to communicate between threads? Or between each client thread and like the server thread, or some sort of watcher thread? And yes I will use TCP/IP, I don't want all the hassle of error recovery/correction etc, of UDP. Kory Spansel
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