VB is fine. I've done alot of development in VB and Forms and they're both good, but in different ways.

You can knock up a system very quickly in Forms since it's a 4GL, but it's ease of use also makes it less flexible than VB.

These days you can do pretty well anything in VB and it's pretty quick, but it was not designed originally for DB work. Database access is not part of the native language as it is in Forms, you have to use ADO. This isn't a problem but the code doesn't look as elegant as forms.

If you've been used to Forms you'll find the database interaction in VB clumsy but, once you've worked with VB for a while you'll find Forms quite restrictive.

What about Java?

Good luck.