[Info-vax] Suggestions for implementation languages/utilities for new database project

[urbancamo]

I'd like to tap into the comp.os.vms collective wisdom...

I'm about to start a new project, a hobbyist project, which will
involve an application to provide a query system front end to a
database of information. A fairly standard information query
application. It will be implemented on a VMS system, either Alpha or
Itanium based.

I'd like recommendations of languages and databases that people have
had good experience with in the past, from a VMS-hosted perspective.
I'm a Java programmer by trade, so a traditional web-based front end
with Java based business logic and either a MySQL or Oracle database
would be first choice, but I'm interested in alternatives that
developers have had good experience with.

I'm more interested in a productive development environment, so for
example any technologies that speed database integration with business
logic. I'm happy to consider mature VMS-centric technologies if they
provide a good level of productivity.

Thanks, Mark.