Re: VB vs. JAVA

Hi,

sorry, but you are not limited to ODBC. Oracle comes with "Oracle Objects for OLE". This is a library (comes in 2 flavors: as a type library for VB and as a class library for C++ (might be obsolete with 9i's OCCI)) that enables your apps to access Oracle natively via SQL*NET. We've used it in many tools from VB/VBA/C++. It's as reliable as any other library (to be read as: not perfect, but still good and usable).

And... no, I'm not a VB programmer. I also did Java projects. The packages that come with Oracle (8.1.7 here) give you kind of the same possibilities as the Oracle Objects for OLE (connection pooling etc.). SQLJ is comparable to Embedded SQL (Pro*C).

Regarding the execution speed, I can't tell a difference between Java and VB unless it comes to GUI. Then, you can toss Java into the trash-can. Which leads me to a point that I do not understand at all: Why is it not popular to deploy GUIs written in C++ using some platform independant GUI toolkit and connecting to servers written in Java (via CORBA).

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"Jamadagni, Rajendra" schrieb:
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> Basked on my limited knowledge, you'd go a long way with java and oracle,
> that's where Oracle is pushing everyone anyway. I doubt how cold it will be
> on his each when Oracle will recommend to drop java and start using VB.
>
> If you use VB, you have to use ODBC, with java client JDBC.
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> Raj
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