JAVA Matrix

Characteristic Associated with Language

High-level Yes but not as high as JAVA or C++

1. VB 6 has advantages with internet application development

According to (Microsoft, 2003), “There are many ways to develop applications for the Internet. Prior to Visual Basic 6.0, developers relied on CGI programs, on ActiveX functionality, or on Active Server Pages to create dynamic, interactive Internet applications. Internet application development in Visual Basic offers several key advantages over those approaches” described (p. 1). Microsoft gives explanations of these advantages by explaining that, “

• You can greatly reduce the cost of deployment per user. End users of an IIS Internet application can run the application using only a browser; no special software aside from the appropriate browser needs to be installed on th

eir computers. End users of a DHTML Internet application need only the appropriate browser and the Visual Basic run-time on their computers. These necessary pieces are installed automatically.

• A full supply of mathematical, and string-handling functions: From my managerial perspective, this is one of the most important aspects to why we use visual basic. Here, our programmers will be able to meet any of the special needs requested by the client when reports are needed to forecast costing trends, and scheduling which requires many complex formulas from the fact that these areas in our management structure contain many variables to analyze and tract on a daily basis. String functions are important here because our clients, for example, may not provide us information within a form workable to our needs. We may have to take a set of numbers as codes and split them into multiple codes for costing and scheduling purposes.

• You can separate designing the user interface from writing the code for a form or page. In previous Web-based applications, developers had to insert their script directly into an HTML document that was also used to generate the user interface. The end result was code that could be difficult to read and maintain.

• A full supply of powerful database access tools: The database tools provided by Visual Studio 6.0 provides our programmers, from my managerial perspective adequate tools to perform, develop, and maintain our site level databases to the two-tier level which only requires direct access, but the only concern here is that we may need to have automated update system for when updates are required by our clients or even our organization. At the current time we have no automated update system, when our programmers make changes within our databases, using visual basic code, when have to modify and fix all areas of the database which apply. At the current time, this is not a problem because our databases are not to the very large scale, for example the three-tier database systems that may manage data from multiple construction sites. In these cases, we need to extremely consider an automated update system or a more powerful and higher level language like C++ or JAVA, so our maintenance cost remain at a manageable level.

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