Product Description

Oracle8i, Oracle's "Internet database," introduces a variety of Web development tools that extend traditional database concepts to Web content. With Oracle's DBMS, you can now build Web technology on top of a relational database, rather than on a traditional filesystem. This approach remedies many of the problems that have slowed down the ability of organizations to build new Web applications and to put their legacy applications on the Web. Many developers are intimidated by the vast array of new technologies in Oracle8i. And yet, they are under pressure to build complex Web applications immediately. This book provides the information you need to start building these applications right away. It is a compact, easy-to-read guide to PL/SQL, HTML, XML, WebDB,and Oracle Application Server (OAS). It also covers the packages in the PL/SQL toolkit and shows several fully realized Web applications. This book provides the jump-start you need to to make the transition from traditional programming to the development of useful Web applications for Oracle8i. Even those who know nothing about HTML, PL/SQL, or Oracle's other tools will learn how to create simple Web applications in a matter of days. The book also covers Web development for earlier Oracle versions (Oracle8 and Oracle7).

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1288712 in Books
• Published on: 1999-09-01
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Amazon.com Review
Oracle databases sit behind a large number of Web servers. The latest release, Oracle 8i, is sold as an Internet database and gives developers tools to build Web applications. Oracle Web Applications is a guide for using Oracle 8i for content management, application development, and application integration. You'll learn about its support for the latest Internet technologies, including XML and Oracle's WebDB application development tools. There's also an overview of the InternetLite technologies that allow you to deliver Oracle databases to handhelds like the Palm organizer.

The real meat of the book begins with two chapters that cover building Web applications in WebDB and Oracle's Application Server. The rest of the book goes into plenty of detail and provides lots of code on how to use Oracle's PL/SQL programming language to generate HTML and XML. When you've worked your way through this, you should be ready to start working with Oracle 8i and the Web--and you should be ready to begin linking Oracle databases to the Internet. Code samples and plenty of tips make this an excellent developer's reference. --Simon Bisson, Amazon.co.uk

About the Author
Andrew Odewahn is a writer and software entrepreneur. With an MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business, he has an exceptional ability to find creative yet practical solutions to real-life business problems. The author of Oracle Web Applications (O'Reilly, 1999) and co-author of Oracle PL/SQL Workbook (O'Reilly, 2000), Andrew specializes in database technology. While not writing or designing software, he and his wife travel whenever they can. Their adventures include riding Lipizzaner stallions at a Slovenian casino, speeding down an alpine slide deep in the jungles of Vietnam, hiking (and riding the occasional ski lift!) across the Swiss Alps, hosteling in a Soviet-era sanitarium, and circumnavigating New Zealand's "Mount Doom." They currently live in Maine.

Customer Reviews

Good book for beginners
Reviewer Jay missed the point. The book is clearly for beginners and does a good job of informing them. In this field there are varying levels of expertise so the book buyer should keep that in mind when purchasing a book. I for one found the book to be informative and worthwhile for my particular level of expertise

Too simple. Read the free oracle online manuals instead.
You could get more from the Oracle OAS and WEBDB manual. This book is thin(232 pages), however, it spends 50 pages introducing what is HTML and PL/SQL. The WebDB introduction is too simple and doesn't have any examples. System admin staff in the OAS section is OK for the very begineers, but isn't as resourceful as the OAS online manual, besides the examples are done against OAS 3.0 not the current version 4.0.8. The PL/SQL toolkit section is OK. but I would prefer to read the OAS web developer online manual. Well not worth the money, I am going to return this book.

Outstanding Overview for Beginners
If you're starting to become involved with making your Oracle databases available over the web this is a must read. You can dig out the information presented here from the Oracle manuals and tech sites but ... in just 200 pages the relevant information is collected and organized. Take a weekend to read this book before you start working with the web. You'll learn what pieces are available to you and how they fit together...