Note: This article is excerpted from Chapter 7, "Creating a Shared Database," of Microsoft .NET and J2EE Interoperability Toolkit [Microsoft Press, 2003, ISBN: 0735619220]. It has been edited for ...

I've got a great book by O'Reilly that walks you through setting up a web based database with PHP and MySQL. I was reading somewhere else that J2EE web applications might be a better solution. Is ...