Re: VB5/6 or Oracle Forms

Oracle Forms is quick to develop with and handles hooking into an Oracle database well. We re-wrote (Shawn B. rules!) a VB application here that took almost three years in about 6 weeks of focused development time (we usually work on more than one app at once). AND it was this developers first Oracle Forms project...so probably it would have gone faster. For another app, I created 115 forms in three months...about 1/3 were complex.

The biggest problem that I have seen using VB is that there is so much VB code to be written to hook correctly, safely and efficiently to an Oracle database that the VB programmers that we have hired were not familiar enough with Oracle to do that part correctly. What a mess. Oracle Forms handles all that part automatically. If you are lucky enough to have a well designed Oracle database that has constraints in place, most of your validation code is written for you. So...you can spend your time making the front-end friendly and pretty.

I have seen non-GUI programmers have a hard time with the product but that is because they probably live in a different part of the brain. rq

bgeake_at_my-deja.com wrote:

> Trying to decide on a development tool for a new app. Has to run 24x7
> for about 100 users and be reasonably quick as part of the task
> involves responding to telephone calls from travellers overseas.
> Database will be Oracle, but I'm torn between VB5/6 with Oracle Objects
> for OLE (my usual method) or Oracle Developer 6 (I have limited
> experience of this).
>
> Can anyone comment on the robustness, scaleability and speed of
> development of the 2 platforms? I know with VB I can write something
> fast which will be OK for 100 users but reliability isn't always A1.
> With Dev6 my _perception_ is that development isn't as fast, the GUI
> isn't as pretty but there are blue chip companies using it so perhaps
> it has the edge in reliability.
>
> TIA for any comments (especially anyone expert in both) and Season's
> Greetings.
>
> Bill.
>
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Received on Tue Jan 11 2000 - 23:46:33 CET