I'm new to CursorAdapters and I am converting an existing application from Native Foxpro tables.

The main reason to look at CursorAdapters is the ease of switching data source and also some data is Accessed over a WAN. Currently I have my own IPSocket application that runs queries into XML transfers them accross the wan converts to cursors, allows input & amendment and then reverses the process. It works, but it's not neat and takes ages to trace a problem.

Two questions really.

1. I plan to add a new data type to MY CursorAdapter that would tell it to use a soap object to get the data from a WebService and update back in the same way. Anyone see a problem with this?

2. On a multi user network how do you implement record locking with CursorAdapters? I need to ensure only one user is amending an order at a time.


Many thanks


Gary Williams

PS. Anyone know of a good "first steps" guide, book or article on CursorAdapters? I've had a look around but can't see one.