This is a heavily interactive web application, and JavaScript is required. Simple HTML interfaces are possible, but that is not what this is.
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Simon Ritter
speakjava.bsky.social
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Good question.
I suspect the answer is we didn't.
Remember that when Java was first launched, its primary application was adding interactivity in the browser (unlikely to use local database access).
JDK 1.1, which included JDBC, was launched in Feb 1997, at which point database access became easy. 😀
2025-02-18T09:56:11.953Z