Oracle Application Server 10g: J2EE Deployment and Administration [Paperback]

Michael Wessler (Author), Erin Mulder (Author), Rob Harrop (Author), Jan Machacek (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2004

This book is based on the very latest version of Oracle's fully J2EE-certified Application Server (previously called Oracle9iAS). Oracle Corp. is aggressively attacking this market with a new lost-cost version of the server and a program to move BEA customers onto Oracle free of charge (see http://theregister.co.uk/content/53/30031.html). Adoption interest is growing rapidly amidst favorable reports regarding performance and reliability.

Deploying J2EE applications and configuring the application server are known to be the most tricky and non-standard elements of J2EE development, and thus they receive scant attention in general J2EE texts. This book provides a focused, no-frills guide to getting J2EE applications up and running on 10G. It covers Oracle's J2EE container, OC4J (available for free for development purposes), in full detail and then moves on to explain how to configure and use the various enterprise-level features that come with the commercial editions.

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This book is based on the very latest version of Oracle's fully J2EE-certified Application Server (previously called Oracle9iAS). Oracle Corp. is aggressively attacking this market with a new lost-cost version of the server and a program to move BEA customers onto Oracle free of charge (see http://theregister.co.uk/content/53/30031.html). Adoption interest is growing rapidly amidst favorable reports regarding performance and reliability.

About the Author

Erin Mulder has been working with Java since its inception. In recent years, she has helped deliver many successful Java/J2EE applications, including real-time energy usage visualization, network management for video-on-demand servers, financial market analysis, federal government accounting, and contracts management. She uses a combination of open-source and commercial tools, and specializes in making them work well together. Erin has also been a technical editor for several publications and has presented on a variety of topics at Java Users Groups and the JavaOne conference. Her session at this year’s JavaOne was promoted on Sun Microsystem’s site as one of the "Top 10 Destinations for the Enterprise Developer at JavaOne".

Product Details

• Paperback: 572 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (September 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590592352
• ISBN-13: 978-1590592359
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.9 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,551,461 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Oracle Java apps step-by-step, November 10, 2004

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Jack D. Herrington "engineer and author" (Silicon Valley, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Oracle Application Server 10g: J2EE Deployment and Administration (Paperback)

This is a step-by-step walkthrough of Oracle App Server programming. It goes from application architecture basics through twenty-one chapters on using various APIs and services (with one on installation) to end on clustering and failover. Graphics are used quite heavily, often showing page by page use of various Wizards.

Where the book excels is in it's explanation of the various XML descriptor standards required to register web services, or message queues, or various other system services. Often these things are opaque mojo and the author demystifies these files and shows exactly where modifications need to be made.

The code samples are relatively short, just enough to flesh out the topic.

This is more a field guide than an indefensible reference work. The chapters are too brief and the coverage too scanty to be an in-depth treatise on any one topic. As long as you understand this you won't be disappointed.

7 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars No Oracle lock in, October 8, 2004

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W Boudville (Terra, Sol 3) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Oracle Application Server 10g: J2EE Deployment and Administration (Paperback)

The 10g is Oracle's answer to IBM's WebSphere and JBoss. Wessler certainly wastes no time in delineating how you can use 10g to develope J2EE applications. There are some mundane chapters on installing and configuring it. Important, granted. But the crux of the book is the chapters on making and deploying web applications, EJBs and Web Services within 10g. If you look here, 10g seems to allow for any standard J2EE application to run within it.

Crucially, suppose you commit to designing and developing one of these applications, to use 10g to hook to an Oracle database. Then your code can be largely independent of that database and 10g. In principle, you can migrate it to another J2EE compliant container, over a different database, and have only minimal changes. Realistically, your code under 10g will have all sorts of little Oracle dependencies. But this book suggests that with careful design, you can safely use 10g and still preserve a migration option. No Oracle lock in.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good application developer view with Oracle App Server, October 30, 2005

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Benjamin S. Prusinski "real dba" (san diego, ca) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Oracle Application Server 10g: J2EE Deployment and Administration (Paperback)

Great coverage of the Oracle 10g Application server from more of a developer perspective than that of a DBA. With this book and the other text you have complete coverage of this complex technology.