Re: Oracle Developer

Your application environment will influence your choices.

If your users are on WINDOWS PCs you could user Visual Basic, Power Builder or even Oracle's Power objects. I even know of Microsoft Access being used as a front end to Oracle. Expect to use ODBC for most of these.

If the users have current web browsers, there are a number of ways to make web pages as front ends to the application that do not require either Oracle's Developer or Designer tools. Expect a lot more, lower level coding without the tools. Possible - but not easy for complex applications.

If you are a Java programmer, Oracle also has JDeveloper, a new java based application design tool which costs less than Developer (I Think), but is still an expensive tool.

With the admittedly expensive Developer, you get a feature rich, native mode interface, which exploits almost all of the functionality of the Oracle server, and allows for cross platform development.

HTH Mark

In article <37145dbb.4112838_at_news.austria.eu.net>,   yuri_at_blackbox.at (Stefan G. Weichinger) wrote:

> I´m looking for a way to develop some application for Oracle 8, and
> the support lady from Oracle Austria told me to use Oracle Developer.
> It´s a bit expensive, so I´m asking if there is something not so big,
> not so expensive to use.

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