Database Access through a Midlet

[Kevin O Reilly]

Hi Folks,

New to this whole scene but whats the best way for a MIDLET to connect to a Database and Pull Information out of it and display it on the Screen.

Ive been reading that having a Servlet Do it and use get and put to access it. Any other Methods ?

Regards Kevin

[bhanuchandar.k]

Hi ,
what you need is one server application which has a capability to connect to to database ans serve your request. You can use servlet , .net or php etc..

[Kevin O Reilly]

Hi once the Servlet is Connected to the DB. should I be able to call the methods from within it

[bhanuchandar.k]

Hi ,
Do you mean methods in the servlet? You can call .

[sunil_bhambani123]

Hi,

Your MIDlet will be calling servlet and its methods and in turn the servlet will connect to the database and do the task which it is supposed to do. If you want to retrieve some information from the database then servlet will fetch that information and pass it to the midlet.

It just means servlet will be acting as a mediator between midlet and database. For any communication between midlet and database servlet will be used.

[honest_success]

If the infomrmation which you want to fetch is on phone's memory then you have to use RMS or File Connection JSR but if you the data is on server then you will have to use the api regarding connection.

[nishadh]

Your MIDlet will be calling servlet and its methods and in turn the servlet will connect to the database and do the task which it is supposed to do. If you want to retrieve some information from the database then servlet will fetch that information and pass it to the midlet.

It just means servlet will be acting as a mediator between midlet and database. For any communication between midlet and database servlet will be used.

To access the database using the servlets, which API can i use.??
Or, how can i do it??
regards.

[ektasrv]

To access the database using the servlets, which API can i use.??
Or, how can i do it??
regards.

You simple need to use GCF, HttpConnection and make a network call to the servlet and pass your SQL query and get the resultset in response.