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Why are companies and developers migrating from Oracle Forms to APEX?
I need the answer of this question as I am going to develop new application, and I'm hesitating between Oracle Forms and APEX
Because Oracle decided to kill Oracle Forms;
This is about 'job security' - Oracle company made a huge mistake creating perfect tool for front-end development. Oracle Forms is very easy to learn, has huge functionality, you can do pretty much everything with Forms, and in a very short time. An application that takes months of development in APEX can be implemented less then in a week with Oracle Forms and it will be faster and with better usability. This means , the company has nothing else to develop in this field. Profit-wise this is a disaster. No software company wants to release a perfect product, exactly as no doctor wants all people to become healthy. So they claimed it as an 'old', 'mastodon' etc etc, stopped supporting and offered that JDeveloper 'instead' which turned out to be so messy and complicated that nobody even wants to migrate there; so developers had to start using htmlDB which was very primitive. Now with APEX we have GUI features, like, 20 years old style, a real zoo under the hood, and all forums are flooded with questions like 'how do I adjust column width?'
So this 'progress' took us way back into the past, but what's more important, it gave the company another 20 years of development (and SALES!) until they will manage to get to where they were with Forms. Profit!
Oracle Forms is an old technology. Originally in character mode for dumb terminals in a typical client-server architecture. Due it's large installed base by e.g. institutionals, Forms survided every technology innovations, upgraded from thick clients to thin clients. Actually its a mastodon, not easy to learn, outdated.
It's more likely existing Forms are moved to Apex pages.
Oracle states in this document from april 2014, that Oracle Forms will be supported, quoting "indefinitely" from page 8. http://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/lifetime-support-middleware-069163.pdf .
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i'm working on a project - an office information management system,
the database is a MySQL database, and now i have to build the front end GUI.
already I drawed a model of a screen example with PP (from total of 15 in my system),
my question is how to build the GUI? which tool/language is simple and easy to learn?
i thought about C++ but i no experience with it...
the information have to be retrived from the DB, read, write, queries, and so on.
will be happy to read your thoughts
![Powerpoint initial model][1]
The implementation that should come to your mind is one in a programming language you know. You can program this in many languages:
Visual Basic. If you already know it, this can be the fastest. Start the IDE and put together a forms project for you DB app.
Java. Many people know Java and you can pick it up in a matter of days and you're likely to have use for it in several projects. A Swing or AWT project that you build in Eclipse or Netbeans with the DB driver for the DB connection will work.
Python is also a popular choice. You can use the library tkinter to make quick GUIs.
C/C++ will also work. But if you don't know C/C++ already you might want to build GUIs with higher abstraction.
A web application with CSS/JScript using some Javascript framework to do DB i/o. But from your question it definitely seems that you want a desktop app.
Use this project to learn a new language. You might not know Lua, Haskell, Clojure, Scala, Kotlin, Fantom, Erlang or some other tool that you don't know how to connect to MySQL with, then it'll be good practice to do so in a new language.
Any of the above will work and if I faced this project I would use tool of the above.
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I'm looking for a database frontend which should have the following features
can access PostgreSQL and MySQL databases
can handle schemata
offers a nice sql query tool
supports an import and export functionality (something like tab separated text files)
it's free
looks awesome - every time when a colleague comes to my office he must
get the feeling: oh boy, this man really knows his job and should get more money!
At the moment I've used phpmyadmin, phppgadmin, pgadminIII, mysqladmin and dbVisualizer. Furthermore I was a big fan of the aqua datastudio until it became commercial. This tools offers a great variety of functionalities which can simplify a programmer's life. However, now you have to buy a license...I'm a scientist and money for software is limited. =)
My Swiss army knife for databases is SquirreL SQL.
universal client (JDBC based)
extensible (through plugins)
does the job
It's UI is not its biggest strength though. But I rate higher what I can do with it than the way it looks like.
OpenOffice Base can use ODBC to connect to almost anything, including PostgreSQL and MySQL.
Point 6 might be a problem... :(
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I m looking at creative solutions for reporting, I have an app and now i need to create some reports from it.
I would be led to believe that the customer will be happy enough with excel reports, however what I want is that they have the freedom to create the reports themselves, without any help from development, so i need something simple yet powerful ( fun to work with would be a plus :) )
I use MS SQL Express.
Web or desktop deployment: it doesnt make any difference
Licensing costs Ideally none as its a very small operation
Open Source: preferred
Metadata modelling: none
Handle large amounts of data: not really, in the 100k records
large numbers of concurrent users: not really, 1 or 2 users
I remember I read about an csv solution somewhere but I cant remember if it came with a reporting engine of some sort
Thanks for your ideas
Allowing users to generate their own reports would be wonderful, but for anything beyond a simple report, this quickly require basic database skills. I've never seen a user-accessible report designer that users could actually design reports of any complexity with.
You're better off providing two things:
The most obvious reports with some filtering/sorting options. Common ways to do this are with Crystal for a desktop app or SQL Server Reporting Services for a web app.
The ability to export raw data to Excel. Office skills are far more common in most user groups than database skills. Your users will have a better chance of creating a report with an Excel chart than they will have of working through any report designer I've ever seen.
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We develop scientific software and I manage a small group of applied scientists who write great code. A lot of our products depend on stable development tools which we've been using for developing a stable code base. Now the issue is, someone from the management visited an open source conference and was too pleased to see a lot of great tools which can be used internally for free in place of the commercial ones we've been using so far. So he suggested to the management to remove costs of buying the tools we've using and shift to the open source ones. Now I do not have anything against the open source movement but through a small experiment I found that my team is spending a lot more time debugging and maintaining stable code bases for those open source tools .
I'm sure a lot of other program manager's have had this problem so far. Would people relate their experiences and let me know of any studies made on this subject ? i want to present a cost benefit analysis to the management by giving some statistical facts not just empirical evidence. I'll be glad to know some case studies thereof.
I think open source is terrific, but I use a commercial IDE (IntelliJ) for Java development, even though there are popular open source alternates Eclipse and NetBeans. In my experience, IntelliJ is the best IDE, hands down, with a measurable impact on my productivity.
I can't say that it's true of all tools, but in this case it is.
I don't believe that either open source or commercial tools can claim the high ground here, because I can cite good and bad examples on both sides. Blanket statements and "me, too" thinking are usually a bad idea.
Statistics will be hard to come by. 86% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
I would expect managers in a company whose products are based on science to be more rational. You're a small firm - talk it through. If it's not possible in your situation, then no one has a chance.
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I'm considering trying to get more granular analytics for my sites than the free plan on my current provider, Clicky, provides.
Piwik looks like a strong contender in the analytics space (and I'm surprised I haven't heard about it before) but I want to be sure I'm not throwing the baby out with the bathwater by swapping to it.
Does anyone have any experience with this software and - in particular - are there any people out there who've tried customising the code or developing their own plugin?
To add to ghommey's response: we're also using Piwik right now and it fits the bill for our purposes. Separating IP ranges isn't really a concern for us as we use separate development and deployment servers.
As for customizing it, I've written a couple of Piwik plugins, one of which served to enable SSO for our (non-PHP) project. Writing the code itself has been relatively straightforward; however their authentication cookies violate the HTTP cookie RFCs (RFC2109 and RFC2068) in that they use illegal characters so there might be also other dragons in places.
AS of the latest release (q1 2010) filtering IPs is possible.