Professional Oracle 8i Application Programming with Java, PL/SQL and XML Book

Sixteen individuals and "The Churchill Team" put this book together and its breadth is remarkable. Oracle's core strength remains its robustness as a database management system but technology advances, languages evolve and we want to do more and different things with our data over the Web and within intranets. Professional Oracle 8i Application Programming focuses on Oracle's support for Java and XML, as well as on Oracle's own PL/SQL database language, and how to develop applications using all three. The first five chapters present the background to current thinking on database application development, including discussion on N-tier applications and connectivity. Three sections then cover PL/SQL and the Web, Java and XML: primers for the last two are included as appendixes. Acronyms such as XSU, SAX and DAD rain down thick and fast and Chapter 23 sports the unlikely title of Application Integration using Soap (oh, all right, SOAP). Simple Object Access Protocol is just one among the many technologies you can learn about within the 1,200-odd pages of this book. The target reader should be a programmer with a database background as assumptions are made about general database and SQL knowledge. The usefulness of this book to anyone in the expanding world of Oracle programming easily conquers the slightly schizophrenic use of I and we, sometimes in consecutive paragraphs. P.S. XSU is Oracle XML SQL Utility, SAX is Simple XML for API (Application Programming Interface) and DAD is Database Access Descriptor. --Mark WhitehornRead More