Vembu PL/SQL to Java migration tool 1.0 released – it shall support most of Oracle 8i PL/SQL, although some collection features are not yet supported. Vembu takes Oracle PL/SQL Packages, Procedures, Functions and Triggers and converts them into Java code that implements most of the PL/SQL in-built functions as Java APIs. The converted Java code is completely standards based with direct calls to JDBC API and does not involve any intermediate proprietary API.

Well, interesting to see that there is a migration path away from PL/SQL – doubtless huge PL/SQL packages will lack performance and need additional tuning/redesign after the migration… I am not yet sure about the business case where one would need this tool, since Oracle PL/SQL is still supported and has a rather large development community.