PART I: Overview Chapter 1: Overview of Technologies Chapter 2: Oracle Application Server 10g Architecture PART II: Oracle Tools Chapter 3: Oracle Forms 10g Chapter 4: Oracle Reports 10g Chapter 5: OracleAS Discoverer 10g Chapter 6: Deploying Oracle Tools to the Web Chapter 7: The PL/SQL Web Toolkit and PSPs PART III: Oracle Portal Chapter 8: Oracle Application Server Portal - Architecture Chapter 9: OracleAS Portal-Development-The Basic OracleAS Portal Components Chapter 10: Advanced Oracle Application Server Portal Components Chapter 11: Integrating Forms, Reports, and Discoverer into Portal PART IV: Java Chapter 12: Java in the Oracle Database Chapter 13: Oracle JDeveloper 10g Chapter 14: JavaServer Pages Chapter 15: Deploying EARs, WARs, JARs, and JSPs Chapter 16: Extensible Markup Language (XML) Chapter 17: Web Services Appendix A: Further Reading
Chris Ostrowski (Highlands Ranch, CO) is a Senior Consultant with TUSC (The Ultimate Software Consultants). Chris began his career as a developer with Forms 4.5 and has expanded his expertise to cover both the Application Server and Database. Bradley D. Brown (Denver, CO) is Chairman and Chief Architect of TUSC (The Ultimate Software Consultants), a full-service consulting company specializing in Oracle, with offices in Chicago, Denver, and Detroit.
Oracle Application Server 10G is an integrated suite of middleware technology designed to help build Enterprise Applications, Web Sites and Web Services, Enterprise Portals, Business Processes, Business Intelligence, and other systems. Wow! It used to be that a database was just that, a thing that you fed data and it gave it back when you politely asked (I say politely because you had to talk its language, SQL, and you had to talk it fairly precisely or it just gave you some incomprehensible rejection notice.) Now the database has become almost a complete business environment. The Oracle Application Server contains a web server (based on Apache), a web portal, Wireless connectivity, Forms, Java 2 Enterprise Edition, all kinds of management and security routines, and more. This book is primarily a Web Development book. That is, it uses virtually all of the parts of the Oracle Application Server with a view to presenting information on the web. Probably this is because so many business applications are now being written with a view of using the web as the standard interface into the business system. Beyond that, however, this book actually covers nearly every aspect of the Application Server. The book includes things such as using Java in the Oracle Database along with the JDeveloper IDE. Many of these subjects have books written about them alone. Here in one volume is a complete introduction to just about everything you could possibly use to produce any business system needed using the Oracle system, and it's the most complete approach that I've found. Books-On-Line 20041213