Re: Oracle WebServer Tools vs. Netscape Livewire

Great question, we had similar issues with some clients about a year ago. At that time, the WebServer and tools weren't as well packaged as they are now. The newer Oracle product suites (i.e. Web Developer Suite) bring the price WAY down for using Designer & Developer to generate PL/SQL for the Web. I can't see advantage of LiveWire for connecting to Oracle, unless your client already has a scripting guru and they'd rather do ad-hoc development. I'd advocate investing in a well-integrated programming environment like the Oracle tools, unless you can get satisfactory answers to:

How will you control LiveWire source code? How will you analyze and document your application requirements? Can you have multiple developers working on sections of a LiveWire Application?
If you needed to put your application in another format (eg. VB, Oracle Forms, C++), could you port the LiveWire code? Could you reverse engineer existing apps into LiveWire?

I'm sure that you'll hear other sides of the story....

Peter Worthington wrote:

> Does anyone have any comments, pro's and con's, on using Netscape
> Livewire
> in conjunction with the Oracle WebServer tools?

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Thomas N. Ricciardi
Interactive Technology, Inc.
Oracle Preferred System Integrator