>Bruce,
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>I am focused on working with the data...Oracle. So I asked one of our programmers. He said they use tools like Dreamweaver to generate the pages. They use Java as the middle piece to access Oracle. And he claimed that accessing data is one of Java's strongpoints.
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>If you have any particular questions, I'd be more than happy to run them by the programmers for you.

No, just curious about why the Java performance is so terrible as an front-end, which has given it a negative image at my agency.

That said, it does appear to be just fine as a data-access tool - as I noted, the one thing that works in this app is the Sybase back-end query. If you can make it as far in the Intranet GUI as the final "Submit Query" button, the data-retrieval part (either a small 100-max record on-screen preview, or to a server for FTP download) runs quickly and perfectly.

I guess that would be the middle-piece here, also, that Java is good at. It's the front-end that is the problem, and perhaps Java is not the right tool for that tier.