Rapid Application Development with Oracle Designer/2000 (2nd Edition) (Paperback)

by Chris Billings (Author), Maria Billings (Author), Julia Tower (Author)

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Product Description
Oracle's Designer/2000 gives you powerful tools for information systems development, but its sophistication makes it very challenging to learn. In Rapid Application Development with OracleA (R) Designer/2000, the authors' "fast-path" approach puts Designer/2000 essentials into your hands quickly and shows how to make the most of the toolset in designing and implementing information systems that effectively serve your clients' needs. The book shows how to incorporate Designer/2000 into every phase of development, from interviewing business executives about their informational needs through implementing the final application. The book takes an example organization's development team through the planning, analysis, data design, and implementation of a sample Oracle7 database and an application built from Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports, and Visual Basic modules. In the process, it describes every Designer/2000 tool and demonstrates how to put each to work in real-world applications development.Specifically, you will learn how to apply such Designer/2000 tools as the Matrix Diagrammer, Entity-Relationship Diagrammer, Repository Object Navigator, Database Design Wizard, Module Structure Diagrammer, and more. The book features extensive coverage of Designer/2000's flexible yet complex application generators, presenting the many capabilities and options of the Forms Generator, screen reports, and the Visual Basic Generator. Furthermore, you will find information on all the newest developments, including the WebServer Generator, the MS Help Generator, the Graphics Generator, and the C++ Object Layer Generator. For those who have little or no experience with Designer/2000, the book also includes a comprehensive overview providing a brief explanation of each Designer/2000 tool. 0201634449B04062001

From the Inside Flap
A great deal has changed in the information system (IS) industry since we wrote Rapid Development with Oracle CASE in 1992. Today there is an ever greater emphasis on:

Distributed client/server development

Graphical user interfaces (GUI)

Object-oriented tools and techniques

The creation of World Wide Web applications for viewing and reporting on enterprise-wide information.

Of course, many fundamentals of the system development process remain with us, for example, the challenge of managing complex, large-scale, often geographically distributed projects. And coupled with this is the ever-present pressure created by time and resource constraints.

All these factors beg for methods and tools that can squarely address their impact. Designer/2000 provides both the methodology and the technology that organizations need to manage this increasing complexity and accelerating rate of change.

When we thought about how to approach the Designer/2000 product set, we tried to consider these changes. We also reflected on the many responses we had received to Rapid Development with Oracle CASE: A Workshop Approach, the predecessor to this book. For example, we wanted to cover the operation of the application generators in more detail, since these products provide such a wealth of features and options. We also realized the need for a brief tutorial to help beginners navigate through the tools. Fortunately, we've been able to include all these enhancements (in other words, we have completely rewritten this book), and we believe our readers will receive significantly more assistance with their Oracle development efforts as a result.

Once again, out context for examining these tools and techniques is a rapid application development (RAD) workshop. We select a functional area of a client's organization in order to take their development team through Analysis to the implementation of a sample Oracle7 database and an application built from Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports, and Visual Basic modules. But this time we go even further by adding three more chapters that examine each of the application generators.

This combined approach allow us to:

Indicate the "red thread" of essential actions needed to complete a Designer/2000 project, beginning with business modelling and continuing through the implementation of a functioning system.

Provide detailed instructions on using the highly flexible (and complex) Forms, Reports, and Visual Basic Generators that our clients and readers have been asking for.

We are very excited about the quality of this book, and we sincerely hope it contributes to the success of all your future Designer/2000 projects.

AcknowledgementsBy virtue of the complexity of Designer/2000 and the ambition of our aims for this book, we have needed (and received) considerable expert help from colleagues in the Oracle community. Once again, we need to thank Liz Johnson for providing us with her excellent technical editing skills. We are also indebted to several software developers, documenters, and courseware developers for their very thorough and knowledgable reviews. These include Andy Page, Bill Kukstas, Amy Coppola, Keith Bremer, Ian Neall, Carl Gohringer, Rosie Harvey, Matt Gridley, and Robin Fisher.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 2 edition (October 11, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201634449
• ISBN-13: 978-0201634440
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,854,549 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good for providing a sense of how the tool flows, January 20, 1999

By A Customer

I use this book in training classes and for people trying to "pick up" Designer on their own. It's most valuable assets are a quick, down-to-earth language style and a tutorial that gives new users a quick sense of the what happens to all the information they're entering into the tool through the generation of Forms and Reports.

In general, a good, basic place to start - especially since other books are really aimed at more advanced users - or at the functional side of CASE development.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good book!, December 31, 1998

By	Nadia Alatas ([e-mail]) (Jakarta,Indonesia) - See all my reviews

I have read this book, it definitely helps for making rapid application with Designer 2000 as match with the title and helpful for the beginners. I am looking forward for similar book for Designer V.2.1.1

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book for starters, April 6, 1999

By A Customer

The book is excellent. I went through the brief tutorial and it tells you the step by step procedure to do all things. The only drwaback is that the version of designer that I work in and that in the book are different so it is difficult when you come to final part to create database etc. The authors need to write a new book. Otherwise an excellent book.I definately recommend this one for new users.