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The Developer's Guide to Oracle(R) Web Application Server 3

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What a life saver! A must-have for anyone learning App Server. Far more useful than Oracle Press' offerings, this book got me inside the architecture and up and running with a minimum of fluff, (something I really appreciate in these days of 2,000+ page books on basic HTML) and has been extraordinarily helpful in getting my project off the ground.

The books provides bug warnings, work-arounds, example applications (with documented source listings & explanations), pitfalls to avoid, overall great insight, and all source on CD-ROM.

I read Oracle's on-line docs and the Oracle App Server Handbook (which is good, but it's best as a package/procedure reference, as far as teaching, it's awful), both of which were essentially useless for getting a decent education about the product.

I recommend this book as necessary equipment to anyone who has anything to do with App Server 3.

1/3 the book is wasted with printed code listing!! If you are going to bother listing the code at least include some comments with it. The examples did not include any installation instructions so if you want to use it to learn, it is almost impossible. You might as well already be an Oracle Application Server expert.

This book provides a good introduction to OWAS 3.0 and explains how to configure and use the product in a very clear and concise manner. It even goes beyond the introductory level and explains in great detail how to use PL/SQL cartridge which is in my opinion the single most useful part of OWAS 3.0.It was the first book available on the market and after spending an afternoon with the book, I was able to install OWAS 3.0.2 on my company's SUN UE3000 and port the application written in PL/SQL for WebServer 2.1. I can only wholeheartedly recommend the book.

Mladen Gogala

This book has done a great job in providing solid foundation to Oracle Web Application Server 3 with practical code examples. This is a great reading for all the developers who want to lead the emerging NC market and N-tier application development.