Re: Big System... Is Oracle Forms Good?

#include <disclaimer.h> John, With a thousand plus users you are in the realms of needing a T.P monitor. This technology is as old as the hills - ask any IBM mainframe jockey, basically it creates order out of the chaos of these thousand users by queueing and prioritising service requests. These service requests are continuously running modules which perform a single predetermined task: "deposit $ amount in account number #####", for instance. The fact that they are continuously running makes them very fast; no start up overheads. Without it your database back end is liable to throw in the towel in despair. In the Open Systems arena the three names are NCR's TopEnd, Transarc's Encina and AT&T's Tuxedo. Opinions vary but when hardware manufacturers perform TPC benchmarks they usually use Tuxedo. Look for "xa" compiant resource managers aka databases, Oracle 7 and Informix Online 5 and up (with tp/xa) both are. When you go with a T.P. Monitor you are not cursed for ever an a day to work in third generation languages. Informix have a tp toolkit which allows you to write client and service applications in 4gl. Accell can do it and there are third party applications that allow you to write your client (user front end) application in visual basic or sql windows. All the best, Pete Harris On Thu, 2 Feb 1995, John R. Moore wrote: > Is Oracle Forms a good tool for developing complex client-server applications > that will have high volume (say, 1000 simultaneous users)? Is so, why? If not, > why not? On a complex system, does one still get the "performance payoff" that > the 4GL/screens-handler promises? If not, why not? What sort of gotchas are > out there? Has anyone out there done a large Oracle Forms project and had it > succeed or fail? > > Would one be better off with C or C++ under a transaction manager? How about software complexity? > > Thanks in advance > > John Moore > ---- > John Moore NJ7E - mailto:ozone@primenet.com - http://www.primenet.com/~ozone/ > ...Politicians are like diapers: both need to be periodically changed for the same reason... >