Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

  • Congratulations bkrike on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

JAVA OR FRONT PAGE 1

Status
Not open for further replies.

dawg

Programmer
Dec 20, 1999
22
US
WE ARE CURRENTLY LOOKING INTO DESIGNING A WEB APP FOR OUR FOXPRO DATABASE. WE CURRENTLY OWN FRONT PAGE BUT WE HAVE HEARD GOOD THINGS ABOUT JAVA. WHICH SHOULD WE USE??
 
FrontPage is a WYSIWYG editor -- it helps you to write your code, though it doesn't help you to write good code (honestly). You can use it to help with your HTML and some Javascript (I think).

Java is a programming language, and not one you would pick up overnight. It's somewhat like C++ in many respects.

Other scripting languages that might be easier to pick up include ColdFusion (Allaire.com), PHP (PHP.net), Perl (Perl.org) or ASP (Microsoft.com). All will help you connect to a database though you should check the documentation to see which will work with FoxPro.

We have all been down this road! Though if you need something fast and don't have time to learn a language you may want to consider a contractor. Good luck!
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor

Back
Top