> Short-term, I see the JDBC-lite as the first step. Longer term, I don' > think that the RMS is likely to be our only repository. It may be our only > *shared* repository, so if we want to make use of records for contacts, etc. > but in terms of application specific databases, I don't think we need to be > limited here. > > Specifically, if we're doing a telematics application for a car company in > J2ME for an on-board system, we may need to read from a database on a > CD-ROM, or have a combination of RMS, CD-ROM, or remote datasources. > Further, we might come to a conclusion that we want the database present in > our code, and ignore the RMS entirely. Perhaps it is a good option to start with something on top of RMS and abstract from the underlying layer later. Currently we do not know what that will look alike anyway. Best, Stefan |