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I'm preparing an Android Application related to restaurant management. I need to connect the application in another windows application like pos software. That windows application uses Apache Derby database. Can I connect that windows pos with front end of my android App?

Adrian Frühwirth
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You can't connect to the derby database directly from android using the derby client jdbc drivers since derby doesn't support android, see DERBY-4458 for details.

The best way of doing this would be to modify the windows POS to expose a rest interface, and have you android app talk to the POS through REST.

If you can't modify the POS app, and if derby is running in client server mode on the POS app, you could write another java app that ran on the same machine which talked to derby using jdbc, and have that new java app expose a REST interface.

sbridges
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  • can you suggest me any web links or book for the REST interface? Actually im new to it and a good advise can lead me to good start. – Nitesh Verma May 26 '13 at 15:42
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You might want to look at this if your problem is still not solved: Awake SQL Proves to be good solution on this. I am trying it myself to see if it works or not.

Nitesh Verma
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