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To: WTSherman who wrote (10830)	5/26/1999 7:58:00 PM
From: Hardly B. Solipsist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19079

It depends on the Java and what you are doing with it. People write large-scale applications in PL/SQL (Oracle's other database scripting language), and the performance of the Java is reportedly quite a bit better for "logic intensive" use. (I've heard that PL/SQL is better integrated with SQL, but that Java is faster at computing, in other words.) If this is true, then their Java is already suitable for writing database applications. I use an editor called GNU Emacs, which is quite popular among programmers. Almost all of this editor is written in a language called "elisp", which is interpreted Lisp (and the interpreter is quite slow). Basically, the language is 100's of times slower than C. In spite of that, the editor is incomparably more powerful than any other editor because of this language. So, again, it depends on how you use the language. A lot of the bad reputation that Java performance has is the stupid AWT -- you'd think that after years of failures of these portable windowing libraries that people would have known that something like the AWT was a bad idea, but they didn't. At least people appear to be backing off from the use of that. And AWT or anything like it makes no sense in a server environment -- I think that you'd be hard-pressed to get a DBA let users run windows driven from the server. I think that Java can be made to work in the enterprise over the next couple of years. We'll just have to see...