Are Oracle programmers less important and paid

[amolso]

Hello Everybody

I am only programmer working with java programmers
currently I am placed well but with increasing importance of java and it's facilities tempts me to think that is oracle programmers importance going down. in future will it be just relate to DBA activities.
What is Normal Oracle Programmer/ Database Desigers Future?
Are Java programmers are more paid than oracle?
Should Oracle Programmers acquire Java or other skills?

Amol [sig][/sig]

 

[carp]

Amol -

At the risk of sounding like Mr. Clinton, "It depends on what the meaning of Oracle programmer is".

If you mean a PL/SQL programmer, I would speculate that the future is less promising than it used to be (but not necessarily bleek, by any means!). Since PL/SQL is a proprietary language and must be recompiled for each machine, it is possibly less attractive than Java.

However, since Oracle 8i interacts well with Java and even stores Java in the database, "Oracle Programmerers" are by no means becoming an endangered species! Also, if you look at the products Oracle is fielding these days, you will find that many of them are written in Java, use Java liberally, and allow creation and execution of Java applications/applets.

In order to remain competitive, I think it behooves anybody who plans to make a living by developing Oracle-centric applications to learn Java programming and how to interface their programs to the Oracle data server. While there are many sources of training, I would also mention that Oracle Education offers several courses ranging from Basic Java to creating Java Server Pages that interact with the database.

On the other hand, I recently heard that Siebel (I think that's spelled correctly) has looked at this issue and decided to stick with PL/SQL!

Hope this helps - but I suspect this will be the first in a long thread on this topic.

[sig][/sig]

 

[amolso]

Thank you Carp,
your advice is really helpful
Based on it can I get answer to one question from you or
anybody

I am just starting to learn Java Programming from next
week, However my domain of working will be mainly
on Oracle 8i. I am in continuous interaction with java programmers for their work on database (Screen Designing,
Query writing, writing procedures functions which will be called by java programs)

What are the Main Aspects on which I
Should stress during my working as well as learning
in java.

I would like know this from all you
Thank you
Amol [sig][/sig]

 

[jmagana2000]

I agree, for fear of becoming pigeon holed (or pigeon toes, I always forget the phrase), it definitely is to one's advantage to have more than one gun in their holster. I come from a very big SIEBEL shop, and yes siebel does like the PL/SQL. But, unless you want to be chained to this application for the rest of "Its" life, I would suggest speading your wings a bit. Java, shell scripting, the whole gamut.

Hope this helps,

Joshua