I am writing a game in Java, it is an applet. I want the user to create an account, and have it registered into a database. I know how to create a database on my computer, and do username and login checks, but how do I get the database online, so that users can login?
There are multiple ways, one is Jackcess. The examples are straight forward. An other way is to use an ODBC Jdbc driver.
I am not really sure what the applet's restrictions do have for an impact, so check this in advance. If you just need a simple data repository, think about something like SimpleDB, where you do not need an own server.