Re: Experienced PLSQL, Newbie to Java -- Why would one use java?
From: Jim Kennedy <kennedy-down_with_spammers_at_no_spam.comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 02:49:37 GMT
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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 02:49:37 GMT
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Some things are much easier to do in Java and for those thing Java might make sense.(eg reading a directory on the server) Jim
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> OK, so java in Oracle has been around for a while, but in my jobs,
> there hasn't been a need for us to use java. So now I'm looking into
> java for the apps. In the past, web apps based on Oracle technology
> used PL/SQL and the web toolkit. Now, that still exists, and there's
> even PL/SQL Server Pages that can be used to retrieve information and
> present it to a web browser.
>
> But, when/why would I use java in any of these apps if I'm staying on
> a Oracle9i database and Oracle 9iAS app server?
>
> thanks.