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Re: Windows application - Linux server

From: Stefan Jahnke <stefan.jahnke_at_d2vodafone.de>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 00:01:50 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.0037AA01.20010828235545@fatcity.com>

Hi,

I can recommend the OFC (the Oracle Class Library for Windows platforms). It's stable and caters to Oracle's capabilities. We used it and it's great.
And ... yes, use a RAD tool like C++ - Builder. Creating GUIs with VC++ is a pain.


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Jan Pruner schrieb:
>
> Ad 1.
> If you need only forms to read your data and business logic is simple:
> - I think that the best way is create packages with business logic in PL/SQL
> on server and put output on a web server to view it using standard web
> browser. You haven't to install any stuff on client workstation (program,
> net8 or ODBC, configuration ...)
>
> If your users need to analyze data extracted from db:
> - Forgott VB - you cannot handle data well and you will die from upgrading
> every workstation during installation of your soft.
> - If you will use VC++ - perfect GUI is a pain, use some RAD tool like
> Borland builder or any other.
>
> Ad 2.
> Use Net8 and objects of your development framework.
>
> What's about Java?
>
> Jan Pruner
>
> Dne út 28. srpen 2001 12:30 jste napsal(a):
> > Hi all,
> > I would like to develop a windows (Windows 98)application, which will
> > have to connect to an oracle database (8.1.6) running on a Linux machine (
> > RH 7.0 ). Can somebody please advice me as to which of the following can be
> > chosen:
> >
> > 1). Which language or GUI interface would be efficient?
> > VB, VC++ or is there something else ?
> > 2). Which is the best way to connect to the database?
> > ODBC, OLEDB , Activex Data Objects .... or
> > anything other than these ?
> > And also how about using pro_c++?
> >
> > This is the first time I am trying to develop an application for
> > Windows, so I donot have any idea about these technologies, but I would
> > like to choose the best one before I start to learn about it. Can someone
> > please help me or guide me to some resource which will provide this
> > information? I don't require information about the technologies themselves,
> > just tell me which the best one is and I will manage to learn it myself.
> > Thanks for any help.
> >
> > PS: Even, if you have experience working with only one of the technologies,
> > please mail back with the experiences you had with it. In this way we can
> > compare all the individual experiences and will be able to make out
> > something out of it.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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