Customer Reviews

Oracle JDeveloper

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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.

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.

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.

I use Jdeveloper at the office, and I thought that this book could help me with some of the finer points of using this software package. It did not. It touches on the basic stuff, but if you want to create any EJB components and deploy them, this book is no good for you. There is a book from Oracle that is targeted from development for 8i and it is more useful to a developer. The topics that this book covers are very trivial and out of date for the most part (Jdeveloper 1.x).

Although it covers all the aspects of JDeveloper, the author struggles between teaching Pure Java and JDeveloper. Very poor/less examples. I would prefer some other book.

Suitable to guide you through using the JDeveloper programming interface, but not nearly enough to get you up to speed with Java. Lacking in detail and depth of examples particularly when trying to build even a relatively simple database application that has multiple tables/views/queries etc...

As indicated in previous reviews, the book does not really cover specifics of JDeveloper. This book is an inferior JBuilder 2.0 overview. It would be nice to have a JDeveloper 3.1 book, but alas it is not yet available.

Could have done better. Have not covered key server-side technologies like servlets, JSP, EJB, CORBA etc. The writeup on the database tools of JDeveloper is helpful. That is the only saving grace.

Contents might be misleading if the reader is new to java(for example in the the 3.1 version all JBCL components begin with the oracle name rather than the borland name)

I am sure the authors will do good in their second edition of this book. They should not be blamed entirely, the Oracle software kept maturing since the contemplation stage of the book.

The book is not covering the indepth information of JDeveloper's all features. (Specifically DataBase related issues)

Hope Oracle press will come up with better book than this one. Better follow the documentation from Oracle Corporation.