Re: Best Front End for Oracle?

Todd Verstraten wrote:
>
> jfk wrote:
> >
> > Oracle Developers,
> >
> > Can anybody advise, what they would recommend as the best Front-End
> > Application Builder is for an Oracle7 database.
> >
> > The database consists of 100+ tables and about 500+ data elements, the
> > schema is also quite complicated.
> >
> > Any input would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Regards...JFK
>
> Best is relative. It depends on what your most important criteria are.
>
> If your criteria is to integrate with the database, it supporting
> toolsets and need to find people who are skilled in the database and the
> tools, forms is a good choice.
> Forms two biggest weeknesses are it user interface is poor and the
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> have a wide depth of talent available to help, Visual Basic makes some
 ....
> If you prefer a strong, structured environment, power builder also makes
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> Todd Verstraten

How about Borland's Delphi. It is easy to program like VB with the speed of C. Supposedly, the yet unrealesed version will have tighter integration with C++.

Some down sides:
1. Hard to find programmers. Although training in this language should be relatively easy.
2. Restricted to Windows based apps. No UNIX version. 3. Some quirky behaviour that is sometimes difficult to trace. Probably no more quirky than any other language, though.

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