title: JAVA Swing client, Data Access to Remote Database; Ibatis
body: <p>I've got a Java client that needs to access a remote database. It is the goal to hide database credentials from the user and not hardcode any credentials within the code. Therefore, the database access will probably have to be on the server side.</p>
  
  <p>I'm restricted to use Ibatis as a data abstraction framework. Apart from that I have JBoss running on the webserver, allowing me to use data sources.</p>
  
  <p>How would you design the remote database access and data serialization/deserialization. would you prefer web services of some kind of data stream over a socket? How would you realize either of both?</p>