Jauvane Cavalcante de Oliveira wrote:
>
> Hi Brad,
>
> > There seems to be two commonly used Java/Database application development
> > tools and they are Visual Cafe and JBuilder. Here are my questions:
>
> I strongly suggest you to use VisualAge for Java from IBM. The Enterprise
> version has direct DataBase manipulation capabilities.
I have played with the free demo version of Visual Age and liked it.
Isn't the Enterprise version extremely expensive though? I thought
it was over the $2000 mark.
> > 1. Has anyone tried to use the code they generate on Linux?
>
> I've tried the generated code under Solaris/Linux/Windows and it works just
> fine. Not sure about the database access though.
Thats good to hear! Its the database part I'm worried about though as
shown in the next response...
> > 2. Will they hook up to a JDBC database on Linux like SOLID Server or
> > PostgreSQL?
>
> With VisualAge you can easily access any JDBC or even other DBs (DB2,
> Oracle, Ingres, even Access and FoxPro).
Do they use a middleware tool like Visual Cafe used to? That would make
it likely only run on Windows...
> > 3. Is Java on Linux (or Windows 95 for that matter) at the point where I
> > can expect to develop end-user commercial software and have the stability
> > and ease of use I need?
>
> Yep. You betcha.
Ok well its good to hear someone who thinks so!
> > 4. Are there other options besides Visual Cafe and JBuilder?
>
> VisualAge is available (info) at http://www.software.ibm.com/ad/vajava/
> A very nice demo/tutorial is available at
> http://www.software.ibm.com/ad/vajava/vajscdemo.htm
>
> I don't think you will regret the time spent in the above-mentioned demo.
I have looked at all this and did like it. I was testing writing some
code
using Visual Age and it didn't seem to handle inner classes correctly.
At
least the example code wouldn't work with Visual Age even though it
would
with the Sun JDK.
> For instance, using VisualAge, I wrote the client/server applet available
> at
> http://www2.mcrlab.uottawa.ca/~jauvane/H263Decoder as well as
> http://www2.mcrlab.uottawa.ca/jets
I'll have a look!
> I hope it helps.
>
> Regards,
>
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