[meltingsmoke]

Pay will vary on what work your doing with it, and how good you become at it.JAVA is for application programming and Oracle is a database programming language, so they are basicly apple and orange, they are both types of programming but for different things.If you enjoy tidious work they both offer their fair share, I would say Oracle is easier to learn as it is not as complex, but you can do more things with JAVA.Both are pretty good areas to get into, I see wanted ads all the time in the paper seeking programmers in both.