Oracle Web Application Programming for PL/SQL Developers [Paperback]

Susan Boardman (Author), Melanie Caffrey (Author), Solomon Morse (Author), Benjamin Rosenzweig (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0130477311 | ISBN-13: 978-0130477316 | Publication Date: December 28, 2002 | Edition: 1

Oracle Web Application Programming for PL/SQL Developers is the hands-on, rapid-mastery guide to Oracle PL/SQL Web development. Learn the core pieces you need to know, from the basics of configuring the Oracle Internet Application Server to PL/SQL Server Pages and the PL/SQL Web Toolkit. The book covers testing, debugging, troubleshooting, deployment, and maintenance and contains practical examples, hands-on exercises, and dozens of practical tips from expert developers.

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From the Back Cover

The hands-on, rapid-mastery guide to Oracle PL/SQL Web development.

• Start building Oracle 9i PL/SQL Web applications—hands on
• Covers the entire development lifecycle, from design to deployment
• Provides instruction for PL/SQL Server Pages, the PL/SQL Web Toolkit, and the Oracle 9i Application Server
• Introduces Web basics—HTML, JavaScript, basic UNIX and FTP, and image handling
• Reviews PL/SQL and SQL concepts
• Includes practical tips and troubleshooting help

Leverage your SQL and PL/SQL experience to build powerful data-driven Web and e-business applications—starting right now! In this book, a team of Columbia University PL/SQL instructors cover the core pieces of what you need to know, from preliminary configuration to deployment of dynamic, data-driven applications. You'll find practical examples, hands-on exercises, and dozens of practical tips and solutions designed to save you time, effort, and frustration. One step at a time, discover how to:

• Configure Oracle's Internet Application Server
• Control Web applications and servers remotely
• Build Oracle Web applications with PL/SQL
• Create dynamic, data-driven pages
• Test, debug, troubleshoot, and deploy your applications
• Maintain and optimize running Web applications

Whether you've been writing simple queries or complex PL/SQL code, this book takes your database development skills onto the Web—and into the future!

About the Author

SUSAN BOARDMAN, Lead Software Engineer for IntraSphere Technologies, specializes in using PL/SQL to build intranet Web applications. She has extensive experience with retail systems, back-end processing, and university applications.

SOLOMON MORSE, Senior Consultant for Net Quotient Consulting Group in New York City, specializes in designing and developing database-integrated e-business Web applications. He has developed Web applications for cutting-edge e-journals as well as for Fortune 500 companies.

MELANIE CAFFREY is an Oracle consultant in New York City, providing front-end and back-end Oracle solutions to numerous clients. She is co-author of the Oracle DBA Interactive Workbook and Oracle Database Administration: The Complete Video Course.

BENJAMIN ROSENZWEIG is an Integration Specialist at IQ Financial Systems. Prior to that he was a principal consultant for 3 1/2 years at Oracle Corporation in the Custom Development Department. He has a wide range of computer experience from creating an electronic Tibetan-English Dictionary in Kathmandu, Nepal, to supporting presentations centers at Goldman Sachs and managing a trading system at TIAA-CREF.

The authors are all members of the faculty at Columbia University School of Continuing Education.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 745 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (December 28, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130477311
• ISBN-13: 978-0130477316
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.9 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #991,969 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #100 in Books > Computers & Technology > Databases > Oracle

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic, fulfills a large void in Oracle Documentation, February 12, 2004

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This review is from: Oracle Web Application Programming for PL/SQL Developers (Paperback)

Written much like the math textbooks of your youth (complete with exercises at the end of each section), Oracle Web Application Programming for Pl/SQL Developers is a godsend for those of us who knew you could write web apps using PL/SQL, but lacked the actual syntax to do so. Book can be used as either a reference or a tutorial guide, given that it is both comprehensive and chock full of sample code. Companion website is handy so you can copy and paste. Bottom line, if you want your browser to talk to your database and make it do neat tricks, this book will serve you well.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Very Helpful Book, April 3, 2003

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This review is from: Oracle Web Application Programming for PL/SQL Developers (Paperback)

I found this book very helpful as it explains the basics in a very clear, easy to understand language and has lots of examples. It's a high quality interactive manual: first the concepts are described, then I was presented with exercises, which is very good as most of us learn through practice, experince. The answers and clarifications which are given after the exercises unit helped me monitor my understanding and in the end I had the complete application and a great feeling of achievement.