The Developer's Guide to Oracle(R) Web Application Server 3

"This book is a must-have for the serious Oracle developers, particularly those looking at the rapidly emerging area of Application Servers. It takes you far beyond the basic introductory material found in other publications and provides a multitude of real-world examples."

-Beatriz Infante, Senior Vice-President Application Server Division, Oracle Corporation

"Dennis Harvey and Steve Beitler have not only written an excellent book about Oracle Application Server products and technologies, they were also instrumental in helping us test and debug the product. The feedback they have provided to us has been extremely useful."

-Magnus Lonnroth, Director of Product Management Internet Application Server Group, Oracle Corporation

Written by two of the industry's leading authorities, this book is a practical, comprehensive guide to Oracle Web Application Server (OWAS), a leading-edge development platform for creating Web-enabled database applications. The book focuses on developing multi-tiered Web applications that interact with relational databases, a promising new arena for business application development.

The book describes in detail the architecture and fundamental concepts of OWAS, as well as key design challenges with practical approaches for solving them. Abundant real-world programming examples, using working code that you can incorporate into your own programs, demonstrate time- and trouble-saving techniques.

In addition, the book features:

* an explanation of the key elements of Oracle Web Application Server's architecture: cartridges, Web Request Broker (WRB) API, application services, HTTP listeners, dispatchers, and CORBA * several complete applications written in all the major languages including a HelpDesk application implemented in Java, PL/SQL, and Perl
* detailed descriptions of the APIs and nuances of programming with the Java, PL/SQL, WRB C API, Perl, LiveHTML, and ODBC cartridges
* an in-depth examination of the OWAS 3.0 toolkits for PL/SQL and Java
* a Web Application Framework for each of the OWAS 3.0 cartridges that can save you weeksof development time
* examples of database access using PL/SQL, Java JDBC, and the Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
* Security basics
* the differences between OWAS 2.1 and the new OWAS 3.0
* software and hardware configurations for OWAS

Using their experience in developing commercial applications with OWAS, from its initial release to the latest version, the authors give you the practical, hands-on skills you need to create effective enterprise applications for the Web.