Re: WebDB vs JDeveloper

WebDB / Portal Applications is great for quick and dirty applications primarily focused on the intranet - but only as long as there's minimal business logic required. If not, it's really cumbersome to implement that in the database only (triggers).

Another disadvantage: Even with Portal you still can't use Stored Procedures with REF CURSOR parameters as data source, which would allow you to centralize logic / data handling in one object.

I think - at least when an Oracle Product currently named Cherokee is available - WebDB / Portal will evolve just into a "Portal" solution and the application branch (forms, reports, menus...) will disappear - so within a year the question will be: how to compare jdeveloper, cherokee and oracle forms.

Klaus
Ted Knijff <knijff_at_bigfoot.com> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag: 3ab9a4b3.3147796_at_news.online.de...
> IMHO you can't really compare the two so easily. If you want Java,
> then jDeveloper is the best bet. If you want to use PL/SQL for the WEB
> then WebDB.
>
> We found that jDeveloper, and Java in general, is extremely work
> intensitive, and not suitable for quick (and dirty) applications.
> Also, with the current state of JDK and JRE releases, which often do
> not work together, crashes at runtime are quite common unless you are
> very careful to install *that* JRE on the server that you used in the
> development of the Java code with jDeveloper. In an Oracle only
> environment, that is quite easy, but in a server environment where you
> have many different Java packages from different suppliers, your
> classpath and runtimes can become a nightmare to manage.
>
> WebDB is, in my opinion, a collection of PL/SQL packages and a
> Web-Schema that makes it very easy to put you existing Oracle data and
> PL/SQL code onto the Web.
>
> I would be very interested in other opinions.
>
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:43:18 -0500, Blair Christie
> <blairc_at_nortelnetworks.com> wrote:
>
> >Hi Guys,
> >
> >I am just wondering about what are peoples opionions? Why would you use
> >one tool over the other?
> >
> >Cheers,
>
> EMail: knijff_at_bigfoot.com
Received on Thu Mar 22 2001 - 10:04:43 CET