Thread: POS System Project

Hello, I am creating a small Point of Sale System (POS) for a local cafe and wondered if an applet would be able to update in real-time in order to perform the operations that I want. It will use multiple computers to display different applets that updates a server database that is called from and changed by all computers connected to the server. I would like to only use applets and not servlets. Any questions on the project to aid me in an answer will be welcomed.

I plan on using four computers (for the applets) and a server:

• One applet for a server terminal
• Second applet acts as a "master" meal list of incoming orders
• Third applet tracks the progress of entrees
• Fourth applet to track the progress of desserts

Note: All applets will need to update the database in some way.

My questions are:

• When the database is updated do all applets using that database update without having to refresh the page entirely?
• Can multiple applets update the same database at the same time or would multiple databases be the way to go?

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