Forms developer and jdeveloper

Question

hi folks
what is the difference between forms developer and jdeveloper
if the both of them can deal with java and can deal with pl\sql ?
regards

Answer 1

You're looking at this from too high an altitude. After all, everything running on say a pc is just making machine language calls. It's the same machine language underneath the hood for everyone on that architecture. So from that perspective there can be no difference between any programming languages. But of course, that is not true from the developer nor the end user perspective.
There are many many angles on what makes one development environment good or bad and many competing perspectives. For example
flexibility. If the development environment extracts functionality into many separate pieces, it will be more flexible. A process can go from
a->b->g and bypass c,d,e,f so to speak. Whereas if a lot of functionality was glommed together one would be condemned to
a->b->c->d->e->f->g and getting it to perform outside that path might be extremely difficult or impossible. On the other hand,
if one really wanted the default path and that was sufficient for what one typically did, it would likely be a lot simpler to develop
that path in a tool that only did that path. With flexibility typically comes complexity. I think you're kinda looking at that with
say forms vs jdeveloper. If you need that mvvc or whatever it is model, the complexity of jdeveloper is the best choice but if you do not
want it and it just impedes you, then forms is your easiest and fastest environment for what I call DUIS :-) (data under form influences) aka (delete update insert select)