Customer Reviews

e-Commerce Applications Using Oracle8i and Java From Scratch

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Throughout the book, you will not find any graphical illustrations or screen shots for application interfaces.

Despite the promising title "e-Commerce Applications...", the book fell short of from what readers will expect. The book title and its back cover promise to take you the "promised land" where you can use Oracle8i and Java to build an "Online Coffee Shop" and other applications. What a combinational power technologies: Oracle8i and Java!

Also the book was claimed for user level of "Beginning-Intermediate", but how it could be useful if the author writes a Java GUI application book without screen shots and graphical interface illustrations? I don't think so. I feel like the book was not prepared well and rushed to published.

This book provides a solid introduction to Java technology and how to take advantage of it using Oracle8i -- all within the framework of building an e-commerce web application.

While the book doesn't require any screen shots to explain the process (as opposed to step-by-step instructions), it does not include the actual code to build the e-commerce code. Instead, the author focuses on explaining the technology (Java and Oracle8i) and how everything hangs together.

Chapters 1 to 3 cover the Oracle database architecture as well the means to create and develop a database.

Chapters 4 to 10 explains Java, its components and how it fits with Oracle8i.

Chapters 11 to 15 cover advanced topic including optimization and security.

Overall, this book would be ideal for the beginner to intermediate reader who would like to get a medium-to-high level grounding in Java and Oracle8i technology in the context of building a web app.

The text is well written and covers Java and Oracle8i in enough detail with ample examples to get you started.

I found the book to be very well written. The author has discussed all the issues that one can face when developing e-commerce applications making use of Oracle8i technology and Java.

Using an online coffee shop as an example the author has done a great job in showing how Oracle8i technology can be used.

Throughout the book the author gives important practical tips on issues such as security, scalability and performance - all critical issues for e-commerce.

Enough information about Java language is given so that even a novice Java programmer can easily understand how to use Java efficiently.

The best thing that I liked was that I was logically taken from the ground up through the whole process and introduced to the issues and solutions associated with e-commerce development.

This book is excellent for someone who knows nothing about Oracle and nothing about Java. The first four chapters are basically introductions to these tehnologies. If you're a beginner and you'd like an overview this text is for you. If however you want a book that shows you how to develop a professional e-commerce site, look elsewhere.

This is the book I have been looking for for long time, combine Java and Oracle and finish a project with updated techniques. I finished it in two days,.It is geat.

This book does what it says: finish an e-commerce project from scratch, but with wrong assumptions: no previous Oracle or Java knowledge. Oracle may not be necessary, but some previous database programming knowledge can help a lot.

If one could master an e-commerce project development by just reading a less than 400 page book, either you must be super smart or IT professions should not have had that high pay.

I do think EJBs and CORBA parts are oversimplified, but how can you curse too much, considering each of these topics should have its own book?

For the code, it appears only to exist a few days. I downloaded it, but I can not locate it from the same place any more, after I read that other people could not locate it.

Interested or frustrated?

I dropped a star because of the code.

In the whole book, the authors discussed one case of using a swing GUI to query an Oracle database, coffee shop. Although querying a database may be considered part of e-commerce, it is hardly enough! Jsp, Servlets and EJBs were only mentioned briefly towards the end of the book. Even for additional reading, it is hardly worth the time and money( there are some errors in the sql scripts as some other reviewers has pointed out ).

Java has come a long way since the time this book was published and there are much better books now:

1. If you want to learn java and Oracle, buy wrox' Pro Oracle8i with java and xml.

2. If you want to learn java e-commerce, buy also wrox's Pro Java E-commerce.

You will not regret buying these two books.

There is a general sloppiness in the text that is totally inappropriate for a book aimed at developers who are starting "from scratch." For example, the SQL DELETE command shown on p. 98 will not run because the FROM keyword is omitted. The correct syntax is shown on the previous page. Another example is the incomplete syntax for the INSERT command on p. 85 --- the VALUES keyword is omitted. The INSERT examples on the following pages do have the VALUES keyword. Finally I must object to the claim "... the standard SQL language is quite limited in what it can really do..." p.78 I'm constantly amazed at the bloated and grossly inefficient code written by procedural programmers who believe that standard SQL is quite limited.

This book is a must read for anyone planning to work with Oracle8i and Java. It discusses technical issues related to e-Business initiatives and explains how to address the challenges while using Oracle8i and Java. An online coffee shop is progressively built throughout the book.

The book is very well written and it provides enough Oracle8i and Java information making it easy to read and understand.

I have a basically Java background but no Oracle experience. This book helped me in understanding the ways in which I can make use of Oracle technology and my Java knowledge while working on e-Commerce projects. The scalability and performance topics in the book helped me a lot in my current project.

I thought the book had good information and provided easy reading, but the database object creation scripts I downloaded contained errors. I had to make several changes to much of the table creation and population scripts for them to run correctly. There was a misnamed table Product(Products), wrong amount of values for inserting data in customers table...left out country, redundant indexing. After correcting these the script ran smoothly. I'd buy the book again, but I'd ask the author to please pay attention to detail, and correct the mistakes.