You didn't specify the direction.

I believe he's confirming my fears.

I've heard that Oracle is phasing out PL/SQL in favor of ... something. Java, maybe?

What I just got through teaching myself is how to use all of their bc4j components to put all of the business logic in a middle tier instead of in the database. For this it was all Java. I’m not sure how this relates to “phasing out” PL/SQL. The bc4j/ Jsp stuff looked fairly up-and-coming as I learned, but of course the authors of the books would tend to leave that impression. Heck, the PL/SQL book (again, published in 1995) talks about how up-and-coming PL/SQL is.

The project he wants me on is in Oracle Forms, which I know Oracle is phasing out soon. This is one of the first things that sent flags up.

Man this stinks. I was just getting excited about learning something new.