Re: Java technologies

I have yet to find more than a few uses for anything other than PL/SQL. I use the others, whether the ones you mention of Pro*C, only when absolutely necessary.

Some are slower ... but all require more separate skill sets on a project and for long-term maintainability.

Daniel Morgan

Luis Cabral wrote:

> Hi
>
> I've seen in the last months (or even years) a lot of effort of
> Oracle to develop products and technologies based on Java, but I
> still feel very unconfortable with them, and I just couldn't use
> in any real project. First of all, because I found them very
> complex and there is a lot of new things to learn (in fact, every
> other day it seems that is something new to learn...), secondly
> because I could not see how use it effectively. I am talking
> about Jdeveloper, J2EE, OC4J, BC4J, XML...
>
> I would like to know if someone succeeded in using such
> technologies in the development of application systems.
>
> I don't mean web applications (for which the java platform is
> surely excellent), but applications in which you would use
> forms and reports ("traditional" applications)...
>
> In other words, I am afraid I am "getting behind"... Should I
> be using some more advanced technology, or such new technologies
> are not still mature?
>
> By the way, today I am using Oracle Developer and Powerbuilder
> for c/s applications, and Servlets/JSP for web applications...
>
> Thanks
> Luis Cabral
Received on Fri Mar 22 2002 - 18:33:47 CET