Client-server database application...

Hi there!
I'm about to write a database-application and I wonder if the following approach is to prefer or not:
I want to use a MySQL-database and there shall be about eight client-applications which all shall be able to use it. I think of solving the above with RMI (I want to create/deploy a server wich will contain all the different SQL-queries on the same site as where I install the MySQL-database ). From the clients I just, with RMI, invoce the methods on the server which contains the different queries I want to use. In other words all the database-functionality is located on the server somewhat like stored procedures. To make it work each client must be assigned a thread of its own on the server...is this right?
The advantages of the above which I can think of is: I just need to stuff one J/Connector driver in the JRE (on the server). Another is that I can use the nameservice of RMI... are there others?
Is the above a good / usual or even bad approach?
Is it more usual or even better to just provide the database-functionality (SQL-queries) in the clients and provide every client with the J/Connector driver?
Thanks in advance!

You noted that there will be "eight client-applications" - does that refer to eight users or eight programs using the database? This is important in determining your course of action.
If you're talking about a small number of concurrent users (you have to define small), then you'll probably better off trying to do all the data/business logic in the app. If you're talking about a large number of concurrent users (again, your definition), your client/server paradigm might be better.
To complicate things, unless you're doing this as a learning-on-your-own project (e.g. not getting paid for it), this is where you might want to evaluate using J2EE technoligies for your server-side implementation. Writing your own server is not a trivial task (been there, done that - pre-J2EE, of course): there's a lot of things you have to figure out how to handle. Well, that's true of even using J2EE, but there's some portion of what your server would need to do already taken care of in an application server.

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