Oracle9i JDeveloper Handbook [Paperback]

Peter Koletzke (Author), Paul Dorsey (Author), Avrom Faderman (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0072223847 | ISBN-13: 978-0072223842 | Publication Date: December 17, 2002 | Edition: 1

From the exclusive publisher of Oracle Press books comes this thorough guide to Oracle’s Java development tool, JDeveloper -- new for 9i. This book explains the JDeveloper IDE and how to build JSPs, Java applications, business components for Java (BC4J), and more.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Develop Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) Applications

"Oracle9i JDeveloper is a great tool for developers who need a complete, productive Java development environment. This book is a must for anyone looking to learn how to use Oracle9i JDeveloper." --Michael Winner, Vice President of Technology, Conference Planners LLC

Take full advantage of Oracle9i JDeveloper--the award-winning integrated development environment (IDE) for Java programming--using this authoritative resource. From the exclusive publishers of Oracle Press books, Oracle9i JDeveloper Handbook explains how to design, debug, and deploy J2EE applications and describes the features, wizards, and code generators available in Oracle9i JDeveloper. You'll also find details about Business Components for Java (BC4J) as well as plenty of annotated, hands-on practices throughout the book--so that you can begin developing applications right away.

• Leverage the power of the Oracle9i JDeveloper IDE
• Use BC4J to tightly couple applications to database objects and to represent business rules
• Construct Java applications and applets
• Construct JavaServer Pages (JSP) applications
• Deploy applications into J2EE environments
• Create customized, high-performance, scalable BC4J applications
• Model your applications using the UML Class Modeler
• Understand how to best use the BC4J Data Tags Library for JSP pages

About the Author

Dr. Paul Dorsey is the founder and President of Dulcian, Inc. Dulcian specializes in Oracle client-server and web custom application development including developing new projects, auditing existing efforts, and rescuing failed projects. Paul is the Executive Editor of SELECT Magazine. He is the President of the New York Oracle Users’ Group. Paul and Peter Koletzke shared the Pinnacle Publishing Technical Achievement Award at ECO ‘95 for their work on a Forms template. Paul has won best presentation awards at both ECO and IOUW conferences and speaks at numerous Oracle conferences and user group meetings.

Product Details

• Paperback: 976 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (December 17, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072223847
• ISBN-13: 978-0072223842
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,902,149 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent source for newbies or JVeterans, August 5, 2003

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Martin "martinrleon" (Whittier, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Oracle9i JDeveloper Handbook (Paperback)

I am actually a Lotus Notes programmer by trade (OK, stop laughing!) who has been dabbling with a variety of other programming languages for many years (C++, Java, VB, C#, etc), so I have had some exposure to Object Oriented programming and developer GUI's going back to GWBasic. I have also recently begun to dabble with Oracle 8i and 9i, installing them on my laptop and on a Linux box so that I would have Oracle available to me as a learning resource. I am by no stretch of the imagination a programming wizard, but I can quickly make myself useful in any programming environment with good reference material as my starting point.

I recently decided that I needed to try to put myself in a better position in the job market by extending my working knowledge of both Java and Oracle. Oracle JDeveloper appeared to be the best tool for accomplishing this objective and the Oracle 9i JDeveloper Handbook has proven to be an excellent learning source for such a vast product.

There are several factors that make JDeveloper a complex and powerful tool. First of all, it allows you to create and edit all things Java -- from basic Java classes and simple Java console applications, to JavaBeans, JSP pages, Swing/AWT Java applications and applets, Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs), servlets, you name it. Additionally, the JDeveloper product has a class modeling tool that at first I thought was just for drawing UML diagrams, but it actually can be used the way that UML is supposed to be used -- to produce actual database tables that embody the properties that you specify in the JDeveloper GUI. All of this functionality is already a massive undertaking but then you add on to that the use of Oracle Business Components for Java (BC4J) and things get really hairy.

Probably one of the most difficult things to wrap my brain around is the BC4J architecture, not because it is confusing but because it is very powerful and seems to be very extensive and very well thought out. I can say this because in the JDeveloper Handbook the examples and the scenarios that are used to explain the BC4J object model and architecture effectively convey the benefit and flexibility of using BC4J.

JDeveloper is very integrated with the Oracle database platform. It very quickly and easily can read your database tables and do a lot of the grunt work of putting an object model over your database structures using BC4J. And, as I mentioned earlier, you can "forward engineer" your tables by creating your UML diagrams first and using those to create the underlying database tables (aren't tables just there to enable the object model to persist?). As I continued through the book, the BC4J concepts (which I must emphasize are a very important part of this product) become more and more familiar and I see their value more and more.

This is all to say that the JDeveloper tool is much more extensive than I first realized and obviously has a very high level of integration with the Oracle database platform. There is a lot of ground to cover and this book methodically plods through it. For newbie's, it covers everything from using the IDE to debugging, with plenty of examples for creating a wide variety of the different kinds of projects JDeveloper supports. For old Java veterans, I think what you'll appreciate the most is the material on BC4J and how much easier it's going to make your Java / Oracle programming. The book covers it all at what I feel is a good level of detail with a lot of examples and scenarios that make the concepts clear and useful.

I am really glad I bought this book and I have only read half-way through it! I know I will be reading every page and will continue to refer to it for all the different kinds of examples that it covered. There is no way I could have tapped into half of the power of this tool without this book. Thanks to Peter Koletzke, Dr. Paul Dorsey, and Dr. Avrom Faderman for effectively taking on such massive challenge.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ignore the other reviews, January 26, 2003

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mark benson - See all my reviews

This review is from: Oracle9i JDeveloper Handbook (Paperback)

This book is GREAT. It does exactly what it says it does. It covers JDeveloper in depth. There is a whole section on BC4j (the guts of the product). Of course it doesn't cover Java, SQLJ or JDBC. There are loads of books on those topics. The book is 1000 pages as it is. To develop using JDev, you need Java, SQLJ, JDBC, XML, etc. Do you expect to get all of that in one book? Read the intro, it SAYS that it doesn't cover those topics. It won't teach you French either.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Clear and useful guidebook, January 28, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Oracle9i JDeveloper Handbook (Paperback)

If you're starting to work with JDeveloper, this is a very useful book. I suspect it would also be helpful to people who've been working with it and have run into snaffus . The text is clear without being condescending and the examples are easy to follow . The overview section of J2EE architecture is nicely demystifying, and the second part of the book (the in depth discussion of BC4J) is very well written and clear.

Sure, you can learn JDev without this handbook, but messing about with it until you do is NOT an efficient way to learn it. For people who have real deadlines and real people depending on them for Java-based ap development, this book is fantastic.