Path: news.easynews.com!core-easynews!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!priapus.visi.com!news-out.visi.com!petbe.visi.com!skynet.be!skynet.be!213.51.129.3.MISMATCH!newshub1.home.nl!home.nl!not-for-mail From: Frank Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.misc,comp.databases.oracle.tools Subject: Re: Oracle Forms VS Java Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 19:50:52 +0200 Organization: @Home Benelux Lines: 42 Message-ID: <3EE0D47C.1090201@netscape.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: cc28855-a.hnglo1.ov.home.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl 1054921641 16657 217.121.193.81 (6 Jun 2003 17:47:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.nl NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 17:47:21 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Xref: core-easynews comp.databases.oracle.misc:98456 comp.databases.oracle.tools:59388 X-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 10:46:39 MST (news.easynews.com) Daniel Frechette wrote: > Good day, > > I'm currently working on a project to modify an existing system that was > developed in Oracle Forms 4.5 (Web-enabled) and Java (J2EE, JRun, Oracle > DB). I now have a new application to develop but I don't know if it should > be done in Forms or Java. The new application has to be light and > accessible through a Web browser. I'm trying to assess the pros and cons of > both approaches but I know very little about Forms. Can anyone tell me what > are the TRUE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES of Oracle Forms? Does anyone know > of any studies or architecture comparisons that might be helpful? > > Thank you, > Daniel Why does it have to be 'light'? Whatever that means... Anyway, here are some considerations (a lot of which have been addressed in previous posts): - does your/the client company have a large programming staff, familiar with Forms? - do you need a lot of client side validation; field wise and cross field wise? - do you have the need for a rich GUI If you answered yes to the above: stick with Forms. If you answered no to the first: - go Java If you answered no to the first and last: - you could try to get it done using HTML and Javascript, but basically lot's of validation with HTML is a no-no; I'd opt for Java (if only I knew Java...) And last but not least: - do you really need a light app, capable of running on PDA's, mobile phones: HTML Please remember that Java apps can put out HTML - a point often overlooked in a decision process. Hth - there are probably more considerations - oracle has a nice pdf on metalink -- Regards, Frank van Bortel