Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL and WWW

On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, Dmitry Iv Popov wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> great thanks to Oleg Broytmann for his useful advice, I've
> understood the proper fromat for input data at last and the
> problem with copying DB from file was successfully solved.
>
> Well, I hope you will not be angry with me for one more
> (and I want belive the last) lame question: how do I make my
> DB accessible from the Web (via JDBC)? With what parameters
> should I call 'Class.forName()' and
> 'DriverManager.getConnection()' in case of PostgreSQL?

Connection con =
DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:postgresql:rscexamdb","username","password");

> I must notice that I'm going to write a servlet, but not an
> applet.

It works best with servlet's and applications, but (personally) it's not
that good for applets.

For applets, it would be better to have your own protocol to a servlet,
then jdbc to the database.

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