Customer Reviews

Special Edition Using Oracle Web Application Server 3

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Does a reasonable job of covering Oracle Web Application Server 3.0, but the Oracle Press book is better.

As an introductory book its fine but as a `Most Complete' you want it to expand beyond basic examples into e.g. interaction between the cartridge types, practical implementation advice etc.

I'd have used the money back guarantee if there was one as I expected a bit more from it.

This book does a good job of providing an overview of the architecture surrounding OAS 3.0, but certainly does not hold to its claim as "The Most Complete Reference." Its biggest shortfall is its lack of detail concerning Inter-Cartridge Exchange (ICX). It mentions this topic at least a few times, and explains the premise behind ICX, but doesn't provide any examples of how ICX is accomplished from a PL/SQL cartridge to a C cartridge, for example. A good book for people who are just learning about OAS and want an introduction and then some.

The text provides more of a basic over view of Ows 3.0 and it's capabilites. It dosen't fully in my opinion get to the meat of the server. it's strength's and weakness.

Goes into a great overall review where the documentation falls short. It provided some insightful examples that helped us address a problem we had for weeks. Only shortfall, even though it has a lengthy example on dynamic querying, it needs more documentation on the true capabilities of the pl/sql OWA_UTIL functions/procedures.

Oracle web server is a really mature product (with 3.0) and this book does a good job of covering it. It shows how to install it, explains how to use the "cartridges" (modules that support different forms of code - i.e. plsql, java, perl, vrml), and has plenty of examples. I found it to be very useful for me where my background is pl/sql not html.

They might brag about a CD in the pre-release marketing, but they apparently changed their minds. So don't expect a CD - there isn't one!