Re: [Bulk] Re: Tool

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
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Pawley
To: Wes Williams ; 'Postgresql'
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 1:03 PM
Subject: [Bulk] Re: [GENERAL] Tool

This looks quite interseting.

Thanks Wes

Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: Wes Williams
To: 'Bob Pawley' ; 'Postgresql'
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 9:14 AM
Subject: RE: [GENERAL] Tool

You may wish to consider creating a web interface GUI.

For example: Sun's free Java Studio Creator2
http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/jscreator/index.jsp

A little to learn up front, but then the GUI goodness comes through.

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org [mailto:pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org]On Behalf Of Bob Pawley
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 12:02 PM
To: Postgresql
Subject: [GENERAL] Tool

I am developing a database which needs testing prior to developing the host program.

I am looking for an easy-to-learn tool. I want to develop an interface that I can use to enter and display information in a similar fashion to how a user would operate the database.

A GUI tool would be ideal.

I am running Postgresql v 8.0 on Windows XP.

Bob Pawley