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Title: Oracle Web Applications by Andrew Odewahn ISBN: 1-56592-687-0 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (9 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Great intro for Oracle Developers, but dated
Comment: This book came out in 1999, and it's now late 2001 as I write this.
This publication is a very well written introduction to the spectrum of tools and approaches for using Oracle databases to generate dynamically created web pages - based on 1999 technology. While Oracle has advanced since then, most of this book - especially the PL/SQL web toolkit sections - is still useful. If you're an Oracle developer who's familiar with SQL and PL/SQL, then this book will get you up to speed very quickly (it's only 220 pages - thin by "computer book" standards) on the detail of how the PL/SQL web toolkit is used to combine database data with HTML. If you're an Oracle developer, but you don't know anything about web architecture or HTML, then you'll get a brief yet effective introduction in here of what you need to know.
If you don't know PL/SQL, get Steve Feuerstein's book first called Oracle PL/SQL Programming. Use that to learn PL/SQL. Then, once you're familiar with it, you'll get much, much more out of what's presented in this book.
The section about the PL/SQL web toolkit is very useful, even today.
The overview of WebDB is dated. Oracle's new name for this tool is "Oracle Portal", and while the underlying architecture is the same, and the features taught here still largely apply, there are new features and a completely different interface on the new tool.
The chapter about Oracle Application Server (OAS) is still interesting to read for an overall idea of how web architecture is implemented in Oracle's web server family. But the app server has been updated several times since this book, and has very different screen displays. The basic features are still the same, and the brief review provides helpful insight into where Oracle has been, which isn't too far, fundamentally, from where it is now.
Finally, the XML chapter is not bad for quickly getting a great general introduction of XML and it's capabilities, but be aware that Oracle has GREATLY extended it's XML support since the publication of this book. Nevertheless, I still find this chapter extremely interesting in that it shows the intricacies of what it really takes to generate an XML document, while the newer Oracle XML utilities do much of this work automatically. While the new utilities are good to use, this chapter will give you a bit more insight into the utility of XML and a database, along with a fuller understanding of what is happening, so that you can be more flexible in your use of XML.
There's nothing of substance in this book that addresses Java or Oracle Forms for web use.
So - in summary - it's a little dated for 2001, but still very useful. It's brief and to the point. Very helpful for an Oracle developer who needs to come up to speed quickly on web technologies.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book & resource
Comment: 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 $.
Rating: 3
Summary: Very good beginner's book albeit theoretical in nature.
Comment: 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.
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Title: Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition by Jim Buyens ISBN: 073561637X Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 10 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: PHP Essentials by Julie Meloni ISBN: 076152729X Publisher: Premier Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Oracle Web Application Server Web Toolkit Reference by Bradley D. Brown, Richard J. Niemiec, Joseph C. Trezzo ISBN: 0078824338 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Oracle8i Web Development by Bradley D. Brown, Brad Brown ISBN: 0072122420 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 15 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Oracle Web Application Programming for PL/SQL Developers by Susan Boardman, Melanie Caffrey, Solomon Morse, Benjamin Rosenzweig ISBN: 0130477311 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 18 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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