Language change question

[Bryan]

Hi,

I work for a company that is heading towards an FDA approved development
process. We have always used C++ in a windows environment, and we have
more than 6 years of code, applications and libraries developed.

Our IT director has made the decision that to speed up development times
we need to re-architect all of our existing code, and has hired a 3rd
party (offshore) company to do this for us. They have recommended that
we change from C++ to java, spring and hibernate.

We are all professional programmers here, so learning java is not a
problem for those of us who dont know it. But the time to learn the
tools and environments may take a bit of time. But the real question is
what do we gain from moving to java? Or conversely what do we lose by
moving away from C++?

I would be interested to hear any thoughts, stories of similar
experiences or pros and cons.

Thanks!

[William]

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Hi,

I work for a company that is heading towards an FDA approved
development process. We have always used C++ in a windows
environment, and we have more than 6 years of code,
applications and libraries developed.

Our IT director has made the decision that to speed up
development times we need to re-architect all of our
existing code, and has hired a 3rd party (offshore) company
to do this for us. They have recommended that we change
from C++ to java, spring and hibernate.

Let's see. To speed up development, this director is going
shove the stick into reverse...

Sounds to me like you need an IT director with better run-time
error checking.

You know this 3rd party company probably suggested Java because
it's what they know, right? I bet they can scare up three Java
programmers for every C++ programmer in their region, and at
about the same price. Basically, they've recommended you improve
their profit margins by switching to Java.

-Wm

[William Cai]

Bryan wrote:

Hi,

I work for a company that is heading towards an FDA approved development
process. We have always used C++ in a windows environment, and we have
more than 6 years of code, applications and libraries developed.

Our IT director has made the decision that to speed up development times
we need to re-architect all of our existing code, and has hired a 3rd
party (offshore) company to do this for us. They have recommended that
we change from C++ to java, spring and hibernate.

We are all professional programmers here, so learning java is not a
problem for those of us who dont know it. But the time to learn the
tools and environments may take a bit of time. But the real question is
what do we gain from moving to java? Or conversely what do we lose by
moving away from C++?

I would be interested to hear any thoughts, stories of similar
experiences or pros and cons.

Thanks!

We ported the whole product from C++ to Java several months ago. It took
us about 3600 person day and introduced a lot of "regression bugs".
However, I think it's a wise decision to port to Java-based application.
1. We finally get rid of most of C++ based 3rd party products, like some
STL libraries, etc. It's painful to compile and link those stuff on
different platforms...
2. We get the ability to port the product to a new platform rapidly.
3. Get rid of database dependency.

Hope that helps you make decision.

Thanks,
-William