Oracle 8i and Java: From Client Server to E-Commerce

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Summary: Oracle 8i and Java: From Client Server to E-Commerce
Review: Excellent book for the beginner to the advanced. Content covers everything you need to know about the Oracle Java environment. Great easy to follow examples that reflect real world solutions.

I thoroughly recommend this book to any who wants to further their knowledge in the Oracle-Java world.

A superb reference guide.

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Summary: Disappointed
Review: It is clear that a lot of work went into this book, however, inspite of the large number of pages in the book, it is not very useful. Maybe about 10% of the book has some good tips but the rest is simply out of Oracle education courses. I wish the authors had given some real-world example instead of showing some simple techniques that are fun to know but not really useful on a daily basis.

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Summary: don't expect depth
Review: The first section start with a quick intro to data modeling and general SQL/Oracle syntax. Mid section's focus is on Java data conduits to Oracle (JDBC, SQLJ, etc.). The last part of the book covers a broad range of technologies from IDEs to enterprise components. If you're a Oracle beginner with some java background this book may be of use. The authors cover the material in short succinct snippets. This also benefits middle tier developers - between beginners and experts. For them, this book can be a very useful reference for frequent lookups.

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Summary: Oracle and Java for building Internet Applications
Review: This book appears to be more about getting the best from Java and Oracle, two industry strength platforms, when developing internet style applications.

I found the many code examples useful, which helped to get some tasks completed. It is good to see a book that covers some breadth and more depth on using Java with an Oracle database. I liked the information on using Oracle SQL Objects and the brief introduction to Oracle Business Components for Java.

The book could have had a more consistent flow, but this did not detract from what I needed to know. As everyone knows "you cannot judge a book by its cover", but perhaps the authors original title "Oracle for Java Programmers" (as stated in the introduction and overview) should have been retained.

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Summary: Poor Effort
Review: This book contains numerous typos, and such bad layout of the examples it is very hard to follow. The "<>" typo on p321 is an extremely bad demonstration of this. It seems to have missed one last cycle of proof-reading and editorial fix-ups before it went to press.

But onto the contents... the authors have really taken on a huge task in trying to document the Oracle PL/SQL world and the java world in one book. Since it doesn't assume the reader knows either world in depth all the examples and comments must be kept simple and therefore are of limited use. It starts off with an overview of each topic, and builds on this very slowly. Chapter 20 "Using Oracle Replication to Build Distributed Systems" should be removed completely. This is a very complex topic and the chapter only discusses Read-only snapshot views. No mention of Advance Replication, or the problems these forms of replication can cause in a database. Barely touching on these topics in this way is worse than not including this chapter at all.

The scope of what this book tries to cover is so large, but it still feels as though it has been filled out to make it fat and expensive. The 1000+ pages are paded out with the badly laid out source code of trivial examples. This book is at best an introduction on how Java relates with Oracle databases, I certainly don't think it is value for money. I advise searching for a better option in order to learn how best to interface these 2 worlds.

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Summary: Superlative Book on Oracle for Java Programmers
Review: This book has got to be the most useful and current book to date that I have seen regarding the integration of Oracle and Java for the Internet. I was especially impressed with the inclusion and depth of the coverage J2EE.

I would highly recommend this book to DBA's and Database Developers wanting to use Java in an Oracle Database.

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Summary: Best book on database technology, JDBC, SQLJ, PL/SQL & JAVA
Review: This book is for software developers (Oracle8i and Java). Author has done an excellent job in explaining the use of Java with Oracle8i database. There are plently of examples for you in this book to practice. Suggestion... Install Jdeveloper 3.2 and Oracle8i (8.1.6) database if you want to practise each and every examples. This book also covers XML, JSP and ASP. Jdeveloper 3.2 can be downloaded from Oracle web-site.

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Summary: terrible!
Review: This book is full of error, even in the code listings! did the authors actaully compile and run the examples? it is very obivious that most of the materials are copied, pasted then rearranged from
somewhere else. it is also wordy, boring and misleading starting from charpter one! Its only use I can think of would be a door stopper due to its thickness and weight.

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Summary: Where is the e-Commerce?
Review: This book spends a lot of time and pages (1200+ pages of nothing) on basic SQL and Java commands. It tries to focus on two types of audience (those with Oracle background and those with Java background) but fails to satisfy either.

There is no clear path on e-Commerce development using the discussed techniques and how to really apply the information in a practical manner.

I am not sure what the authors were trying to really achieve in all these pages......obviously they were working in isolation (each trying to write for different audience)