Tutorial: An introduction to JBuilder database applications

Database application development is a feature of JBuilder Professional and Enterprise. Distributed application development is a feature of JBuilder Enterprise.

This introductory tutorial steps you through creating a basic database application and user interface (UI) using the JBuilder design tools to read data from a text file. You can create a database application even if you are not connected to a SQL or desktop database. You can create the database application using data in a text file (in this case, a data file that ships with JBuilder) and the DataExpress TextDataFile and TableDataSet components.

This tutorial then explores the JBuilder DataExpress architecture and applies database concepts to the tutorial even though this application does not connect to a SQL database. The UI for this application consists of three components:

When you have completed the tutorial, your application will look like this:

The completed application can be viewed by opening the sample project file, TextDataFile.jpr, in /jbuilder/samples/DataExpress/TextDataFile/.

Note: If you downloaded JBuilder, you must also download the Samples Pack to get the completed sample.

For a tutorial that steps you through creating a database application using your own text file, see "Importing and exporting data from text files."


Retrieving data from a data source Creating the application structure