Yesterday my SCJD assignment finally arrived. Its a really interesting one, but I think everybody gets the same.
There is a flat file database, which has a fixed record length after a header describing the fields. There is also one, and only one Java interface I shall implement. I don’t know if it should help or hinder me, because the API is really bad. But i will write an adaptor for it, so that can be solved :)

That database shall be running on a server, which can be either the local machine where the client is running on or a network machine. In local mode networking shall even be bypassed. How nice of Sun, to make such an iterative development possible. So i will write a local client first without thinking of networking. The local client shall be swing. That makes me a bit afraid, but I hope I can cope with it.

At last then the networking will be done. I am still not sure whether to take RMI or sockets, I tend to the latter because of less technology complexity, but it has more of: “code your own”. Perhaps I get some wise insight while doing the other stuff.

The real fun part is that I can work on this now at work partially. So doing some real coding again.

If you want to wish me much fun and a bit of luck, do it in the comments. If you have a hint on networking, do so as well :)