I want to start developing an application for storing in a database some products with a photo and do researches among them.
I have experience in Android programming, so also Java, and a little bit on GWT and App Engine…
I could write the application with GWT and App Engine but I must write an offline application.
How can I leverage my background to be more productive writing the application? Are there some shortcuts, environments, etcetera, to write these kinds of “standard application” in Java?
Thanks
Marco
NetBeans has a pretty cool Swing GUI builder that can save you a lot of time.
For SQlite just use a JDBC driver like this one.
You probably shouldn’t store images in the database itself, just the metadata (i.e. what you want to be able to search on), plus a reference to the image location in the filesystem (e.g. images/1234.jpg)