Re: Java technologies

Luis,

we made a strategic decision to go with Java technologies a couple of years ago - give we are a product company this effectively bets out business on it.

Take a look at our website & judge for yourself. Admittedly we have extremely capable & motovated people but we have been able to make the technolgoies work well for us & our customers. Much of this expertise has been applied to taking the complexity out of taking advantage of these new standards. So if you are used to working with a single database - then using our product you can continue to have that perspective but utilise the latest J2EE software and access data from mainframes and even messaging systems (TIBCO & MQ-Series) without having to program new interfaces.

Get some update education & try some things out. I agree that the technical space is changing very rapidly indeed & you need to constantly keep on top of new developments. You should find plenty of assistance out there. The IBM websites are very good indeed & the company is a far cry from the big blue of old - we find them very aproachable & good partners.
BEA have had a leadership in the J2EE space & their software is stable & easy to use, however good their products, they dont have the same attention to generally educating & moving the marketplace as the big hardware companies like IBM & Sun.

Regards,

             David
             http://www.metamatrix.com

"Luis Cabral" <luiscabral99_at_ig.com.br> wrote in message news:c9ff1799.0203220629.302178fa_at_posting.google.com...
> Hi
>
> I've seen in the last months (or even years) a lot of effort of
> Oracle to develop products and technologies based on Java, but I
> still feel very unconfortable with them, and I just couldn't use
> in any real project. First of all, because I found them very
> complex and there is a lot of new things to learn (in fact, every
> other day it seems that is something new to learn...), secondly
> because I could not see how use it effectively. I am talking
> about Jdeveloper, J2EE, OC4J, BC4J, XML...
>
> I would like to know if someone succeeded in using such
> technologies in the development of application systems.
>
> I don't mean web applications (for which the java platform is
> surely excellent), but applications in which you would use
> forms and reports ("traditional" applications)...
>
> In other words, I am afraid I am "getting behind"... Should I
> be using some more advanced technology, or such new technologies
> are not still mature?
>
> By the way, today I am using Oracle Developer and Powerbuilder
> for c/s applications, and Servlets/JSP for web applications...
>
> Thanks
> Luis Cabral
>
Received on Sun Mar 24 2002 - 11:39:31 CET