Re: How robust are Java Oracle Tools for large 3-Tier development?

Web DB is a great toy and works well when all you need are limited capabilities.
JDeveloper 3.0 went production at Open world so it is too early to tell if it will hold up under
serious production loads. I have seen the same posts you have, which may or may not be a
reliable measure of the tools effectiveness in a large production environment.
I am doing a book on JDeveloper 3.0 and am so far pretty happy but we are only now
really starting to push the tool. I have a large system that we are now working on that will go production
in 9-12 months. We have committed to putting as much of the system as possible in the DB so we can convert when the Java environment becomes stable. But,... we have not bet the farm on JDeveloper quite yet. Oracles bleeding edge tends to be as sharp as anyone's.

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Paul Dorsey
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Danny Pearce <dannypearce.home_at_virgin.net> wrote in message
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> Hi,

>

> I have a fairly large Client/Server development, currently in VB, PL/SQL


and


> Oracle8 which runs efficiently, but has been developed over the last 5


> years, and now lacks structure.  I now need to develop a 2nd (and 3rd)

> application in the same area, but with slightly different business rules.

>

> It's obvious to me, that I need to move from client/server to a 3 tier

> architecture.

>

> I recently attended Oracle's Web enabling Seminar, and was very impressed

by


> the demos and functionality of the tools presented  (WebDB, OAS, JBuilder


> etc). However, since then I have heard some less favourable reports on the

> reliability, speed and ability to use to tools for large scale

development.


>

> I would be very interested to hear anyones views that has gone down this


> route.

>

> Thanks in advance,

>

> Danny Pearce

>

>