Re: Advice/Feedback

I have used OAS with the Java Cartridge, and PL/SQL Cartridge to generate web pages. Both projects were successful but required quite a bit of code, much of it to handle very routine things like field edits and validation.

This time I am going with Developer 6i. I am very impressed at how easy it is to create a useful application with virtually no coding; just point and click. Reports looks like a pretty awsome tool too.

I am just learning Developer but I can imagine that if a person really knew the product inside and out, that person could probably do more in one day than a "code it by hand" programmer could do in a month.

I just wish I had a live-in Developer programmer to teach me.

Mike

Kelly Wilcox <tcwilck_at_tc.cc.va.us> wrote in message news:drM45.23933$ds.698613_at_newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net...
> Greetings,
>
> I'm exploring the various possibilities to write web-enabled apps. So far
> I've read about WebDB, JDeveloper, and Forms Server. I'm just a
 programmer,
> not the DBA or the Server administrator. To be honest, the various tools
 are
> a bit overwhelming. Especially since the few apps I'd like to write are of
> an inquiry nature only.
>
> I'm a fairly competent C/C++ programmer, and I'm beginning to think the
> easiest way to do this sort of stuff is to write a CGI in C and be done
 with
> it. I've used the OCI before to access Oracle via C - so that's not a
> problem. Going this route though, there are things I do not know that you
> may be able to point me in the right direction about:
>
> 1. If I'm using a Win32 platform, how do I compile my app to run on our
 web
> server? In this case, the web server is Netscape Enterprise running on
> NetWare.
>
> 2. How do I access the OCI via the app running on NetWare? This seems to
> imply that NetWare itself needs to be running the Oracle client software.
 Is
> this possible?
>
> One other thing, I'm thinking the reason all the GUI tools exist is to let
> us not have to worry about these kinds of questions. If so, and if they
 are
> my best option, can anyone give me a short rundown of why I
 should/shouldn't
> use WebDB/JDeveloper/Developer Server for my tasks?
>
> Thanks for your time,
> Kelly
>
>
Received on Sat Jun 24 2000 - 00:00:00 CEST