[Crow T. Robot]

Originally Posted by Belisarius

Good grief, that's at least two, and maybe three different classes worth of stuff. Networking, database, algorithms . . .

Datagrams are not a reliable network protocol; what do you have planned for in case you drop a packet?

Your queries question, apart from the fact you'll be using JDBC, is really an SQL question. Normally I'd suggest you put it in the SQL forum, but it's really a trivial query. I think all you really need to do is look up how to use SELECT and ORDER for your database; the query itself should be quite trivial. Give it a shot on your own, and if you still have trouble post a question in the SQL forums.

As for the palindrome, work some of it out and let us know if you get stuck. It sounds like you have a decent idea to start out with, although I'm not certain you even need a stack.

BTW, I'm not very good with GUI stuff, so I won't be able to help you out with that stuff. However, if you need help with pretty much anything else I should be able to give you some help.

The GUI shouldn't be too hard. But I have little clue how to start accessing the books database and get started. The SELECT and ORDER statements are explained pretty well with the textbook I have.