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Name and version of the database you are using:
MySQL 4
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I apologize in advance if this is off-topic or the mark of a newbie, but here's my situation:

I am about to start a project with MySQL as a back end, and currently plan to have the database local to the client. In fact I might not even have a server, just the app installed on different machines that would be connected to the internet. No other assumptions about the user's environment should be made, except that it would be a windows environment.

So far, so good. I understand how I would use Hibernate to persist and update the data the user creates. I am considering simplifying things for the user by having the database itself installed and running 24/7 on another machine on the internet. I plan on using Eclipse's RCP for the GUI because it's so much richer than anything I could shove in a servlet/jsp anyway. That's why the server side would not be J2EE-based, there is no need. Just a database running off-site for security and administrative reasons. The database could be running in a simple J2EE app if needed, and that would let me use web services to get to the database. How would that work? Is there any way to set up a transaction manager that would push the data to insert/update on a SOAP connection or something like that? If so, how would the web service that receives the data handle it? Just have a JDBC connection on the web server end and push the data in that way? Would this scale at all, or would I be looking at clustering in the near future?