PL/SQL v/s JAVA

The more I love Oracle the more I hate Java despite the fact that Oracle all the time supports Java. Usually I used to show respect everything related to Computer and especially Oracle, but I am not been able to control my behavior in this matter. By the way one more thing I dislike about Oracle is their insincerity towards their products especially Application Server. Well talking about java I only used it during my courses in BS-IT. I started it as enthusiastically as I can be. But soon I started to get annoying with its complex syntax and lengthy coding. The thing you can do in one line in C, you had to write 6 to 7 lines of java to do that same thing.

One thing I would like to say to all those who may be reading this and are java developers is that my purpose is not dishearten anybody but rather I am just describing my own feelings which can be perfectly wrong. While there is another name in the topic heading i.e. PL/SQL. I like PL/SQL not because it has more features then any damn language in the world but because it is more then what it seems to be. It seems to be an extension of Oracle SQL but it is a lot more then that. Just go there and read and practice. You will be amazed of what can be done with it. Starting from Oracle 9i release of database PL/SQL and SQL share the same parser. That adds something really extra in terms of performance to an already highly Oracle Database integrated language.

When Oracle Database started with built in support for java rumors were there that PL/SQL is leaving. In reality this is not the case. Oracle is certainly not doing anything in terms of enhancing Oracle Forms and Reports Developer but still one thing is for sure that PL/SQL will be there. It seems to be very much true especially if you look at Oracle’s dedication to the language. Because they are adding new and new features to the language for every now and then. And yes we already know that it has support for Objects and object related technologies. As for as java is concerned I have no plans of using it. I never wanted to be an application developer all the time and even if I had to I will choose C# .Net instead of Java.