Hello,
I wasn’t too sure where to post this, but this forum seemed like the best place for it. I am trying to decide which technology would be best for an application that I am going to describe.
What I need is an application that will display data from a database as the database is updated. The database will be receiving XML feeds every 2 minutes or so and will be updated via server side script, the client application will then check for updates and change the data being displayed on the application when updates have happened. While all this is happening, the application also needs to be able to write to the database and update it (not the same tables that the XML feed is updating/writing to). There may also be a need for chat-room support with the application.
My question is which technology should I use? I am experienced with flash, and have done everything I described above with flash, besides the chat room. Does anyone have any advice for me? I have been reading about java applets, but I was curious how well they do with database querying.
