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Bob,
If you're interested in a free java tool, you might want
to look at NetBeans (now version 5). It is one of the best I have seen,
and I have used a wide variety of such tools in a number of different
programming languages. Understand, though, that you have a wide
variety of options, ranging from a web interface (which may be preferred if your
users will be accessing the database over a network) at one extreme to a thick
client, perhaps started using Sun's Web Start, at the other.
An advantage NetBeans offers is that it is easy to learn,
and the user interface is quite intuitive, especially for GUI design and
implementation.
Eclipse is another one with a good reputation, but I don't
like it so much. Its support for GUI design seems to me to be quite
weak.
What you haven't said in any of your posts is what
programming languages you know. Nor do you indicate whether or not you
have the skills required to work with an editor like emacs to create a very thin
client (using a web server like Apache) with server side scripting using perl or
php. It is hard to make a recommendation without knowing something about
your skills. If you don't already have the skills of an intermediate Java
programmer, then none of the tools mentioned in this thread will help you
much. If you knew only C++ (again at least at an intermediate level), for
example, the only tools I know of that would be suitable are commercial
(Borland's C++ Builder and Microsoft's Visual C++). And I have no idea
what the corresponding tools would be on unix/Linux (if anyone knows of such
tools for Linux, I'd appreciate hearing about them as one of my computers will
soon have Windows XP removed and replaced by Suse linux).
Cheers,
Ted
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