Re: Thinking out loud about a new RPG web framework

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen wrote:
> My experience is basically that if you try to tweak an interactive 
> program into a web version SOMETHING will have to give which is plainly 
> not available.
>   
Who said anything about an interactive program?  What we're talking 
about is writing business applications.  The fact that you need complex 
interaction is not the point.

> Since JDBC 3.0 allows for moving both back and forth in a resultset 
> (this is from memory, so the names may be different) I would use plain 
> SQL over JDBC and put the resultset in the session bean along with a 
> counter stating the current row number so paging is possible.  It should 
> be trivially simple, but I'll need to do a quick and dirty test to see 
> if it actually is so :)
>   
As far as I know, scrollable resultsets cannot be placed in stateless 
session beans.

Please, try it out.  Let us know.

Joe