I am involved with small team of programmers that have just finished
writing a suite of Java routines that perform some grunt-job string
manipulation/processing :- the algorithms implemented as Java stored
procedures. Unfortunately, at this late stage in the play, performance
has become an issue and we realise we have probably made an incorrect
technical decision early on. Our reasons for initially choosing Java
as the development environment were the familiar ones but platform
independence should not have been one of the reasons as our code is
intimately tied to Oracle. During a recent technical meeting it was
mentioned one solution might be to rewrite (ie translate) our library
routines from Java to Pro/C++, the latter I believe shipped with all
flavours of Oracle and thus would run on every machine Oracle ran on,
compile to fast native code etc. We have decided on having a think
about this approach, weigh up the pro's and con's, and discuss again
from an informed perspective at the next meeting.
I would be interested in opinions from interested parties in the
forum, other alternatives to our dilemma etc.
Thank you
Colin
Received on Wed Oct 16 2002 - 14:56:53 CDT
