Oracle Web Application Server Handbook (Oracle Series) [Paperback]

Cynthia Chin-Lee (Author)

Book Description

Series: Oracle Series | Publication Date: January 1998

This guide enables readers to learn everything they neecd to knw to set-up and maintain a dynamic and effective Web site. They'll also learn how to use Oracle's new WebSystem, a powerful software for accessing, developing and deploying corporate and World Wide Web applications. WebSystem makes it possible to create HTML pages with changing data and create Web sites that serve a large number of users simultaneously. The book shows how to set up and manage databases for fast access by end users, how to publish documents and conduct electronic commerce and how to keep information secure. The accompanying CD-ROM contains a 90-day trial of WebSystem and a copy of Oracle's PowerBrowser.

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From the Back Cover

ORACLE Web application Server Handbook. The Comprehensive Guide to Oracle's REvolutionary Web Application Server. Oracle Web Application Server 3.0 brings the robustness and realiability of client/server computing to the World Wide Web--and Oracle Web Application Server Handbook is the only officially endorsed guide available that provides the information you need to take full advantage of this powerful product. This book is a "must-have" to fully understand Oracle Web Application Server's scalable and distributed architecture for supporting business-critical, transaction-based applications across heterogeneous environments. Written by Dnamic Information Systems, LLC, a charter member of the Oracle Web Alliance, this handbook provides you with the information to: Properly install and configure the Oracle Web application Server; Create powerful data-driven Web sites; Use PL/SQL to develop Web-based applications; Develop server-side java applications to manipulate and return data from Oracle databases; Integrate Oracle's information management tools with the Web; Use Oracle Web application Server as a technology foundation for the era of network computing; Implement new security eatures and protext sensitive data; Utilize key features such as the Web Request Broker, Oracle's Web-based transaction management, and Inter-Cartridge Exchange (ICX). Whether your organization needs Web applications for electronic commerce, human resources management, or anything in between, this guid shows you how to fully exploit the opportunities of the web/database paradigm.

Product Details

• Paperback: 684 pages
• Publisher: Oracle Pr (January 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0078822157
• ISBN-13: 978-0078822155
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.5 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,681,264 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #92 in Books > Computers & Technology > Web Development > Web Servers

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Lacks detail, out of date for 8i, December 28, 1999

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Sam Masterson "USA" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Oracle Web Application Server Handbook (Oracle Series) (Paperback)

OAS 4.0 has changed quite a bit, so it's difficult to map the old language (agents, DCDs) to new language such as applications and cartridges. There is a frustrating lack of detail if you're new to 8i as well. This is exacerbated by the use of independent examples on every page. Rather than using consistent sample data, each example starts with completely new schema, table, variables, etc. There is a definite laundry list of requirements to installing and getting a successful test of OAS to a remote database, and you'd never know it to read this book. I used the online doc to discover most of what I needed to know.

8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not exactly a complete guide, January 20, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Oracle Web Application Server Handbook (Oracle Series) (Paperback)

The book does an adequate job of describing the features of the web server but if you want to dig into developing applications, this book is not the one to choose. Examples are few - and when they do get around to showing code, they don't always show a picture of the screen to show you what's going on. Also - the book continuosly refers you to copies of examples on the CD that is supposedly shipped with the book. However, upon investigation you'll find that the examples aren't on the CD. You will need to go to their website for those. The CD contains a Trial of the Web Server product and the documentation that already comes with it (I'll admit that the book is better than the documentation that comes with the webserver though). Another problem with the book is that, when describing the htp package procedures, they've pretty much said the same thing as the documentation that comes with the web server. Some better information could have been added - for example: It would be nice to know what kind of error handling the owa_util.todate function does if I send it a date like 31-FEB-99. Instead, all the book says is this: "Converts the owa_util.dateType to the standard Oracle database DATE Type". A rookie like me needs a bit more info. I alswo would have liked to have seen more information and examples on how to process Transactions. This is a pretty important function I would think for many programmers developing apps for the web - but in all the 684 pages this book has, the author spends only 4 pages discussing how to handle it using PL/SQL. All in all, I wouldn't recommend the book unless you're just looking for a cursory overview.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must have if you are using Web Application Server 3.0, May 1, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Oracle Web Application Server Handbook (Oracle Series) (Paperback)

If you are using, or thinking about using, Oracle Web Application Server 3.0, buy this book. It sucessfully brings togeter the material you will need to install, configure, maintain and develop applications. This book is obviously written by people with real world experience of using the product, all too often a rarity.