Oracle9i Web Development [Paperback]

Brad Brown (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 26, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0072193883 | ISBN-13: 978-0072193886 | Edition: 2nd

Get the most comprehensive book on mastering Web development in an Oracle environment--exclusively from the official Oracle Press. This authorized resource is packed with expert, practical tips for developing and deploying Internet-ready, e-commerce applications using Oracle9i Application Server, Oracle tools, and the most commonly used Web development technologies.

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Build High-Performance Internet Applications

Deliver dynamic, scalable Web applications to anyone, anywhere, on any system using Oracle9i and the extensive information contained in this comprehensive resource. Oracle9i Web Development shows you, step-by-step, how to build and maintain robust Java, HTML, XML, WML, and PL/SQL servlets and applications. All of the powerful features of Oracle9i are covered--­­from Oracle Designer, Forms and Reports, Database, and Web Cache to all-new Java and wireless support, Real Application Clusters, iFS, data warehousing, and OLAP. Plus, you'll get all the information you need for administering, indexing, troubleshooting, testing, and analyzing your Web site.

• Install, configure, and maintain Oracle9i Application Server
• Develop, deploy, and debug JSP, J2EE, XML, WML, and PL/SQL Web applications
• Create flexible, scalable content with Oracle Designer and Oracle Forms and Reports
• Integrate any kind of Web data using Oracle9iAS Portal, data warehousing, and iFS
• Improve performance with Oracle Database Cache and Web Cache
• Master Real Application Clusters, flashback queries, and Oracle personalizations
• Implement Oracle9i's built-in and toolkit commands, including UTL_HTTP, UTL_SMTP, DBMS_JOB, and OWA_UTIL
• Build wireless-enabled applications using the XSLT Transformer, WML, and Oracle9iAS Wireless
• Migrate existing PL/SQL-based applications to the Oracle9i environment
• Bonus chapters online featuring coverage of Perl, PHP, and great web resources

Includes Security Chapter by Marlene Theriault, coauthor of Oracle Security Handbook

Covers Oracle Database Release 9i and Oracle9i Application Server 1.0.2.2

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Bradley D. Brown is chairman of the board and chief architect of TUSC, an Inc. 500 full-service consulting company--with offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, and Milwaukee--specializing in Oracle consulting, training, and product. He has been involved with Information Technology consulting since 1982 with a focus on Oracle since 1987. Brad is recognized worldwide as a leading Oracle author and speaker and is affectionately known as "The Dotcom of Web Technology." He is the author of Oracle Application Server Web Toolkit Reference and Oracle8i Web Development, both for Oracle Press.

About the Author

Bradley D. Brown is Chairman and Chief Architect of The Ultimate Software Consultants and is a leading Oracle author. He has written Oracle8i Web Development and is the co-author of Oracle Application Server Web Toolkit Reference.

Product Details

• Paperback: 1120 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 2nd edition (October 26, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072193883
• ISBN-13: 978-0072193886
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 2.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,590,583 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #68 in Books > Computers & Technology > Web Development > Web Servers

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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Very disappointing. NOT recommended at all., April 14, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Oracle9i Web Development (Paperback)

This is one of the most poorly written and disappointing books I have ever come across.

The information is covered in a strange haphazard way, almost misleading in its treatment of topics. e.g. the 3rd chapter has a section titled 'Tuning Application Modules', where the author manages to cover tuning (1) CGI/Perl apps (2) PL/SQL, PSP apps (3) JSP/JServ apps AND (4) the use of Explain Plan, Tkprof tools etc ... ALL in a about 6 pages or so.

Soon after in the book, he then devotes nearly 50 pages to (hold your breath) .. HTML !! But wait, another 40 pages of (.. guess .. nope, wrong again) JAVASCRIPT !!! The romp continues with a near 90 page foray into XML, followed by (and you'd never guess this one .. ) wireless development. Under 40 pages to that last topic of course, after all - understanding what 9iAS has to offer in way off wireless development should be a breeze once you've devoted 50 pages to mastering HTML, right ?

And Java ? Yes, it makes its appearance in a chapter all by itself (c'mon, you caught on that trend by now hopefully). On the 4th page, the section 'J2xE' begins with this nugget -
" .. J2EE is simpler than I envisioned: J stands for Java, which you probably guessed. 2 stands for Java platform 2, which includes versions 1.2 and later of the JDK. Version 2 is currently the latest and greatest version of Java. The first E stands for Enterprise or .. "
And so it continues all the way to the end of that paragraph.

I greatly regret not checking the other reviews before I bought the book. As such, I have myself to thank for wasting my money. I hope you will not make the same mistake.

25 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Oracle9i Web Development is a masterpiece on Web development, February 12, 2002

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Linda Ruff (Denver Colorado) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Oracle9i Web Development (Paperback)

Book Review by Linda Ruff on Oracle 9i Web Development by Bradley D. Brown, published by Oracle Press

Brad Brown has authored several very good books on Oracle related topics and this book, promises to be a "masterpiece" on developing Oracle based Web applications.
After my reading the book in order to write a review for a technical publication, I can tell perspective buyers not to hesitate in punching this superb publication. If you are considering a book on developing Oracle based web applications, look no further, this is it. But if that does not convince you, here are the details:

To start off, there is a 21 page contents listing, preceded by a concise two page "Contents at a Glance" that steer the reader through this incredible publication.

The introduction was extremely helpful to me, especially the section on "How the Book is Organized" because it has a good summary of each chapter and it helped me write this book review. Another point about appreciating a good introduction and contents is allowing the perspective reader the best opportunity to make a good selection when shopping for a book.

A delightful feature in the introduction is "Components Needed" which lists all software, including versions, to install to make everything in the book work. How often have you been trying to work through a technical software problem only to find out the documentation or manuals did not list what was required? Maybe a better question to ask, is how often do they thoroughly list what is required to make development work?

Another good feature in the introduction is the Product Usage Diagram in a Consumers Report type symbols that list the "strengths and weaknesses of different Oracle products, languages, and tools", most of which are covered in this book. Great feature!

The book is well organized and divided into five parts: Getting Prepared, Core Concepts, Modules, Oracle Tools and Ongoing Support.

Getting Prepared covers Architecture, Installation, iAS Configuration and Tuning, Uptime and Disaster Planning.
The architecture of Oracle 9iAS is "radically different" and the author covers installation of the entire iAS suite. In fact, since Oracle 9iAS has so many features and product rewrites, this book is not a revision as planned,, but was entirely rewritten. The author recommend reading the installation chapter before ever touching disks and to cover the configuration chapters

I liked the "Quick Tuning and configuration Answers" in Chapter three, but I like the chapter as a whole because it covered where iAS gets it's information, understanding directives, configuration file structure, ports, configuring and starting/stopping Apache, global directives, managing and configuring modules, security and authentication.
Real Application Clusters (RAC) Technology, 24X7 Uptime and disaster plan importance round out the first five chapters and part I of the book.

Core Concepts starts out with Tips & Techniques on HTML, then covers JavaScript development and comparison to PL/SQL. Next is a long chapter on XML and XSQL, followed by wireless markup language (WML). The author gives us his wireless PL/SQL toolkit in the chapter on Wireless development, complete with code and examples on how to use it. The chapter on migrating from OAS to iAS will be quite helpful when upgrading, especially since it explains what you "really need." Built in PL/SQL packages is a very good chapter on demonstrating how the new packages can be used with or apart from iAS. The final chapter in Part II is on the aspects of security on protecting Oracle9iAS directories, application-level security, authentication, encryption, digital signatures and using Oracle Advanced Security Option (ASO).

The third part of the book is on Java and PL/SQL Cartridge modules with lots of code examples with explanation of what the request, response,, session and , out objects do. There are over 150 pages on just these two modules and some of the topics covered are: Java for the PL/SQL developer, JavaServer Pages, JDeveloper, PL/SQL Server Pages and PL/SQL Optimization.

Designer for Web code starts off the fourth part of the book which goes into detail on form layout, LOV components, packages, events and JavaScript. Using Oracle developer is covered after Oracle9iAS Portal, and something I wanted to learn more about, Internet File System (IFS) is also in part four. Web and database caching completes that part of the book, along with using Oracle Enterprise Manager(OEM).

The last part covered is Ongoing support, which consists of trouble shooting, debugging code, iAS logs and a two chapters high on my list for search engine ranking and online searching.

Throughout the book there are tips, notes and numerous references to interesting and helpful web sites and the entire book is well-organized and superbly formatted.

In closing, I wonder, how does Brad continue to produce high quality Oracle publications? The answer is in his acknowledgements, as Brad shares a little about his family and business partner's contribution, then he lists biographies of all those who contributed to the publication. Thank you Brad, this is truly a "wealth of knowledge and experience."

In case you wonder what I base my statements on, I have been developing and supporting oracle applications for over 15 years (forget exactly how many) and have written numerous technical articles myself, as well as doing a regular book review for an the Rocky Mountain Oracle User Group (RMOUG).

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars If anyone gives this more than one star they are being paid., February 4, 2003

By A Customer

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This review is from: Oracle9i Web Development (Paperback)

Buy this book only if you feel a need to purchase [$]/ 1000 pages worth of "useless" I highly encourage you to read the documentation on the oracle website instead. This book is literally a thousand page overview. It wastes hundreds of pages making vague suggestions about how to code in HTML, CSS, and Javascript. It attempts to discuss every topic that is remotely related to web development and conveys almost nothing useful. I have to marvel at the profound vacuity of this book. The people who wrote glowing reviews of this book either actually read something else, or they are being paid to say nice things about this ....