1. jAdmin: Remote database admin tool

2. Introduction Growing demand for large scale, multi-user applications –Persistent, efficient, data storage Databases! With databases come tools to use them

3. Motivation Major database admin tools –MyPHPAdmin –iSQL*Plus –Microsoft Access

4. My Project jAdmin –Remote database admin tool –Designed for “newbie” users unfamiliar with databases and their tools

5. Goals User-friendly! –Intuitive, graphical interface –Minimalistic design –Take the load off the user

6. What should it do? All the standard things… –Table creation & viewing –Data entry –SQL query handling And more! –Guided queries

7. Technology Java 5.0 –Swing package –SQL package MySQL Server MySQL Connector/J

8. Design Table view (data entry mode) SQL query handling Guided queries Table creation

9. Design Main window

10. Toolbar Buttons v. menu

11. Main frame Houses display

12. Table view Most integral part Houses all data Data entry

13. SQL query Query handling

14. Guided query Designed for users unfamiliar with SQL Uses drop down menus to allow users to structure their own basic SQL queries

15. Table creation Access-like creation

16. Data entry Double click and type! Data validation as you type

17. Behind-the-scenes Data validation –Type formatting –Constraints Local data changes updated to database

18. Demo!

19. Future work Finish constraints –Foreign keys –Auto-increment? More extensive guided queries DBMS independence –Type 3 JDBC driver

20. Thoughts Start earlier!