| gui application [message #1786] |
Wed, 29 May 2002 14:51  |
Wendy Badgett
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Registered: May 2002
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What components are needed/desirable to design a transaction based GUI application using Oracle database and development tools? We currently develop a text-based application using a proprietary version of BASIC and a proprietary data base.
Thanks
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| Re: gui application [message #1791 is a reply to message #1786] |
Thu, 30 May 2002 02:25  |
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Maaher
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Registered: December 2001
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Hi,
An Oracle database as back-end and Oracle Forms ( from the Developer Suite) as front-end is the most appropriate (IMHO). If you can afford it, Oracle Designer is a useful tool. It is a CASE tool that can help you out from database design to screen developing.
If you do everything in Designer, you'll get a repository that holds your entire application and that facilitates developing new versions of your application. The new version (6i) supports even (native) version control.
Another approach would be to create the front-end in another tool and access the database through ODBC/JDBC.
I wouldn't recommend it because it is slower and subject to limitations toward the database.
A lot depends on whether you have the experience in your team to work with the Oracle tools, because they work in their own particular way sometimes. And most of all: what's the budget? Can you afford a lot of expensive tools just for development?
MHE
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