Oracle JDeveloper [Paperback]

Cary Jensen (Author), Loy Anderson (Author), Blake Stone (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 15, 1998

JDeveloper is a Java development tool that Oracle has licensed from Borland for building database applications. This text focuses on teaching database application developers to develop sophisticated, cross-platform Java applications, web-delivered Java applets, and JavaBeans.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Oracle's JDeveloper is designed as an easy-to-use visual development environment, and Oracle JDeveloper delivers an unassuming, thorough introduction to this key development product. The book introduces the JDeveloper environment and then leads you through the steps necessary to master using JDeveloper to build and deploy database applications.

The first five chapters explain the integrated development environment, object-oriented programming, and the use of the product's Layout Managers to build a user interface. The format of this content progresses from explanatory text into more task-oriented demonstrations, precisely outlined in numbered steps.

After laying a solid foundation, the authors introduce you to Java applet and database development. The text covers the use of JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) for database connections and details how to build database applications using the intuitive Data Form Wizard. The book also discusses advanced database programming and contains three informative chapters on JavaBean programming.

The authors include two appendices that provide a detailed reference of the Java language. Although the book doesn't come with a CD-ROM, all of its sample code can be downloaded from the Web. --Stephen Plain

From the Back Cover

Build Powerful Applications and Applets in Java

Oracle's JDeveloper is a revolutionary enterprise-scale tool for building, debugging, and deploying sophisticated applets and applications in Java. Oracle JDeveloper is the ideal book for every programmer, regardless of Java experience. Using clear steps, illuminating screen shots, and useful code examples, you'll learn to create menus, control frames and dialogs, write event handlers, leverage layout managers, create and deploy database applications and applets, build JavaBeans, and so much more. In addition, Oracle JDeveloper includes a comprehensive appendix on Java.

In Oracle JDeveloper, an award-winning author team helps you:

Build sophisticated cross-platform Java applications

Explore a wide variety of database development techniques

Create Web-delivered Java applets

Write JavaBeans and thread-safe classes

Exploit Java's layout managers to create intelligent user interfaces

Generate database windows in Java easily and efficiently, using the Data Form Wizard

Connect to Oracle servers using Oracle JDBC drivers

You can begin creating world-class Java applications and applets today with this definitive guide to Oracle's revolutionary development tool!

Product Details

• Paperback: 688 pages
• Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill Osborne Media; 2nd edition (July 15, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072118636
• ISBN-13: 978-0072118636
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,967,742 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not a book about Jdeveloper, February 3, 2000

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Antony J Swarbrigg (Atlanta) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Oracle JDeveloper (Paperback)

This book was originally called JBuilder Essebtials. They have simply changed the cover. All references within this book are to the JBuilder IDE not the JDeveloper IDE. Althought the envirnonments are similar there are differences that make the book unusable in some circumstances. If you are looking for a book on Jdeveloper look elsewhere or buy JBuilder Essentials, it's cheaper.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The online help of JDeveloper is better, September 30, 1999

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Roland Wymann (Basel, Switzerland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Oracle JDeveloper (Paperback)

We're now about to get JDeveloper 3 (at this moment still in beta - beginning of October 99) that has very excellent support for Oracle8i and Oracle Application Server 4, Servlets, Java Server Pages, Java Stored Procedures etc. etc. and the books and online help and examples provided with the product itself are presumably better than any book can be. Apart from that: the GUI-Beans have changed as well - supporting Swing etc. No more JBCL's ... Fazit: Get the product, read what you get included with it and you have the best basis you can get. You dont need this book really. Well, at least not anymore, because at the time it came out it had some interesting information.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good but flawed (Alistair Saldanha), June 12, 1999

By A Customer

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This review is from: Oracle JDeveloper (Paperback)

I passed the Sun Certification for Java in November. This is an excellent book for someone who knows Java and wants to learn JDeveloper. It explains things simply and clearly and got me up to speed on my first database project.

I did, however, find two flaws in the book. Try this: run the project on Pages 298/299. Insert a new row. Click on the save button. Now go to the new row you have inserted and make a change in one of the fields. Click on the save button again. You will get an error message. There is a reason why an error is thrown: ROWID is only a partial solution as a primary key, it is inserted at the server level, not by the client. Now if you click the refresh button and then save, it works. The client now has the primary key it needs to update data.

The project on Pages 350 to 355 gives an error message even if you do save the data after making a change (and do not make any further changes). It is only supposed to give an error message if you don't save the data after making a change. I haven't been able to figure this one out yet and would love to hear from the authors on a work-around.

I've been very impressed with Oracle Press books and I'm surprised these errors slipped through the cracks.