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Summary: Oracle9iAS Portal Bible Rocks My World
Review: Again James Millbery and Rick Greenwold have taken Oracle's cutting edge technology and made it easy to understand in this succinct and concise book. This is indeed the cookbook to come up to speed on this topic. The book is well written and full of great examples. I strongly recommend this book as a 'must read' for all Oracle Portal Developers.
David Jacob-Daub
Sr. Principle Instructor
Oracle Corporation
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Summary: Great Training Book
Review: Book is written in a clear and easy read way. As someone new to the Portal world, but familiar with Oracle application development tools, this book is a great place to begin your self training.
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Summary: Not good book
Review: Hi, I don't think that this bbok provides enough information to develop Portal applications, especially session storage part of portal. I found user forum on otn are good place to learn portal regards
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Summary: Don't Bother
Review: I am implementing Oracle IAS 1.0.2.2 with Oracle Portal 3.0.9, which is pretty much the latest version of it to date (08/30/01).
I'm sure this book was fine for an older version, but there have been enough changes to make this pretty useless. The product is just moving too fast. I can't even imagine the other title supposedly coming out in September will be able to keep up, because there are still issues with security settings in Portal Export/Import that need to be addressed as well as Reports Server integration.
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Summary: A good starting point but....
Review: I found the book a good introduction to Oracle Portal and worth a read. However, the book has a number of bugs, inconsistencies between the text and the CD and missing information in the install section in chapter 2. It's also quite out-of-date now (as at 15-Apr-02). Also, the website for the book also does not contain the bug fixes, a big disappointment. Worth reading but be prepared for some frustration... When the examples do not work, try skipping them and you may find the answer later in the book.
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Summary: A good starting point but....
Review: I found the book a good introduction to Oracle Portal and worth a read. However, the book has a number of bugs, inconsistencies between the text and the CD and missing information in the install section in chapter 2. It's also quite out-of-date now (as at 15-Apr-02). Also, the website for the book also does not contain the bug fixes, a big disappointment. Worth reading but be prepared for some frustration... When the examples do not work, try skipping them and you may find the answer later in the book.
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Summary: Well written book
Review: I found this to be a well written overview of the capabilities of the portal product. It helped clarify the various elements of Portal applications. I believe it would be of particular use to developers that do not have extensive web based programming experience, as it takes the time to explain supporting technologies (e.g. JavaScript) . Very enjoyable reading, with current and useful information. I recommend it.
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Summary: Well written book
Review: I found this to be a well written overview of the capabilities of the portal product. It helped clarify the various elements of Portal applications. I believe it would be of particular use to developers that do not have extensive web based programming experience, as it takes the time to explain supporting technologies (e.g. JavaScript) . Very enjoyable reading, with current and useful information. I recommend it.
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Summary: Great place to get started on Portal
Review: I think the other review of this book is wholly unfair. I have been a user of WebDB and now Oracle Portal since the first releases. The assertion that this book is out of date is a little unfair, it would be impossible, given the time it takes to write a book when compared to the speed of software development to have kept up with all the features as currently delivered in Oracle Portal. However, if you are new to Oracle Portal you could do worse than get this book to introduce you to the Portal concepts, explain the architecture and intended usage model for the product and help you get your first portal site up and running. I have other books written by the authors and I think they write in a clear, concise and easily read manner, for the newbie in the Portal market this book is a great place to get started.
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Summary: Advanced Techniques covered too short
Review: If you build an portal, then you will have to integrate several 'j2ee'-applications. In the 'Bible' you'll find minimal help on 7 pages (out of 955!) to integrate JSPs and Servlets as portlet. The examples presented are partially buggy (e.g. p839 step 13. or p858 step 11. does not mention debuglevel, but step 13 shows the test page).
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