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Oracle Web Applications: PL/SQL Developer's Intro: Developer's Introduction

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Reviewer Jay missed the point. The book is clearly for beginners and does a good job of informing them. In this field there are varying levels of expertise so the book buyer should keep that in mind when purchasing a book. I for one found the book to be informative and worthwhile for my particular level of expertise

You could get more from the Oracle OAS and WEBDB manual. This book is thin(232 pages), however, it spends 50 pages introducing what is HTML and PL/SQL. The WebDB introduction is too simple and doesn't have any examples. System admin staff in the OAS section is OK for the very begineers, but isn't as resourceful as the OAS online manual, besides the examples are done against OAS 3.0 not the current version 4.0.8. The PL/SQL toolkit section is OK. but I would prefer to read the OAS web developer online manual. Well not worth the money, I am going to return this book.

If you're starting to become involved with making your Oracle databases available over the web this is a must read. You can dig out the information presented here from the Oracle manuals and tech sites but ... in just 200 pages the relevant information is collected and organized. Take a weekend to read this book before you start working with the web. You'll learn what pieces are available to you and how they fit together...

I have been an Oracle DBA for several years, and I still find this book to be of great help in developing Web applications.

I have developed about three systems that in production now, and could have spent time searching users guide for information on WEBDB functionalities, but the book helped me find what I was looking for fast.

I am starting on site building and I believe that I will get all the help I need from the book.

Every Webdb developer should have this book as a reference.

This is a fabulous book, clear and well-written. It's simple enough for those without much experience, but also provides enough detail for those who don't need coddling... Definitely, worth the $.

The title suggests this book is an Introduction to web applications. As an Oracle contractor who knew little about the web, I found it very helpful in that it explained clearly and concisely some of the approaches that the Oracle Corp is taking to web development. For me, it was useful to have a summary of HTML and XML. Well worth a read.

I have used this book as a handbook reference in teaching advanced Oracle & Relational Database Development. As I metioned, it is a very good theoretical book. I particularly liked Chapters 3 (WebDB), 4 (OAS) & 9 (XML). Should you require more hands on examples & sample usage, however, you will have to look elsewhere.

Don't expect too much from the book that covers so many topics on just two hundred pages! First five chapters are dedicated to current Oracle & If you have time you can probably download white papers with better technical information about the topics from Oracle, Technet or related websites. On the other hand this five chapters are good time savers. Last four chapters are much better, covering introduction to PL/SQL and Toolkit (HTF, HTP, OWA_***), two sample web applications (Survey and Discussion Forum) and XML. The best thing about this book is that you'll find out what you don't know, so you can make a list of relevant books that covers the topic in more detail.