Re: When to WebDB, when to use Forms over the Internet?

I knew of one site that tried to use Forms on a commercial web-site aimed at the general public, and it was short-lived. The application was too slow to download, and not very intuitive. They are now re-designing the application using standard web technologies.
If you already have an Oracle background, you may want to look at using iAS and the PL/SQL toolkit. You can leverage your PL/SQL knowledge (and existing code). Here are two articles on OAS and PSP's (PL/SQL pages): http://www.summitsoftwaredesign.com/articles/article1.html http://www.summitsoftwaredesign.com/articles/article7.html

While I haven't used WebDB, it was given a trial-run at a company I used to work for. The developers who evaluated it concluded that it was useful for simple apps, but not robust enough to do complicated processing like you can do within Forms or more robust web technologies.

John Alexander
Summit Software Design

Andy Hardy <Andrew.Hardy_at_BGTechnology.com> wrote in message news:8r9e0b$htm$1_at_sun-cc204.lboro.ac.uk...
> Hi,
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> Our current systems are generally developed in Forms and run over our
> intranet. Future work involves running new but similar systems over both
> intranet and the Internet.
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> I'm looking for any papers or thoughts about the pros and cons of using
> WebDB or Forms over such a set up.
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> I have a Forms and Designer background, so am tempted towards to Forms and
 a
> Forms Server!
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> Andy
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> Opinions are mine and may not reflect those of BG Technology Ltd
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Received on Mon Oct 02 2000 - 13:44:32 CEST