The traditional division of labor between the database (which only stores and manages SQL and XML data for fast, easy data search and retrieval) and the application server (which runs application or business logic, and presentation logic) is obsolete. Although the books primary focus is on programming the Oracle Database, the concepts and techniques provided apply to most RDBMS that support Java including Oracle, DB2, Sybase, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. This is the first book to cover new Java, JDBC, SQLJ, JPublisher and Web Services features in Oracle Database 10g Release 2 (the coverage starts with Oracle 9i Release 2). This book is a must-read for database developers audience (DBAs, database applications developers, data architects), Java developers (JDBC, SQLJ, J2EE, and OR Mapping frameworks), and to the emerging Web Services assemblers. - Describes pragmatic solutions, advanced database applications, as well as provision of a wealth of code samples. - Addresses programming models which run within the database as well as programming models which run in middle-tier or client-tier against the database. - Discusses languages for stored procedures: when to use proprietary languages such as PL/SQL and when to use standard languages such as Java; also running non-Java scripting languages in the database. - Describes the Java runtime in the Oracle database 10g (i.e., OracleJVM), its architecture, memory management, security management, threading, Java execution, the Native Compiler (i.e., NCOMP), how to make Java known to SQL and PL/SQL, data types mapping, how to call-out to external Web components, EJB components, ERP frameworks, and external databases. - Describes JDBC programming and the new Oracle JDBC 10g features, its advanced connection services (pooling, failover, load-balancing, and the fast database event notification mechanism) for clustered databases (RAC) in Grid environments. - Describes SQLJ programming and the latest Oracle SQLJ 10g features , contrasting it with JDBC. - Describes the latest Database Web services features, Web services concepts and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) for DBA, the database as Web services provider and the database as Web services consumer. - Abridged coverage of JPublisher 10g, a versatile complement to JDBC, SQLJ and Database Web Services.

Annotation Find out how to use Oracle9i to get a business where it needs to be for the future of the Internet. Learn the ins and outs of the Oracle9i development environment from product installation to advanced management configuration. Extend Oracle9i's functionality using the new database environment including: forms, reports, and Web sites built with PL/SQL, Java, XML, and Portal. Increase business interactivity with Oracle9i's new administrative features. Coverage of the following in an easy to learn format: building, monitoring, and tuning an Oracle9i database; learning the enhanced partitioning features of Oracle9i; building Web sites using Oracle9i and PL/SQL, Java, and XML; building forms and reports using Developer 6i; using the popular TOAD development tool; understanding newer tools such as Log Miner; and comprehensive tutorials on SQL and PL/SQL. Dan Hotka is a director of database field operations for Quest Software. He has more than 23 years of experience in the computer industry and more than 18 years of experience with Oracle products. He's an acknowledged Oracle expert, with Oracle experience dating back to the Oracle v4.0 days. His last book is Oracle8i from Scratch (Que) and he has co-authored the popular books Oracle Unleashed, Oracle8 Server Unleashed, Oracle Development Unleashed (all from Sams Publishing), and Special Edition Using Oracle8/8i (Que Publishing). Dan is frequently published in Oracle Professional, and regularly speaks at Oracle conferences and user groups around the world.

If you're developing applications that access Oracle databases, you can save time and trouble by having the database do more work for you. That's where this book comes in. It teaches you how to create effective SQL queries to retrieve and update the data in an Oracle database. It teaches you how to design and implement a database, giving you insight into performance and security issues. It teaches you how to use Oracle's procedural language, PL/SQL, to take advantage of powerful features like stored procedures, functions, and triggers. In short, it teaches you to write the kind of SQL and PL/SQL that makes you a more effective and valuable developer.

* The only standard size JDBC "cookbook" in market with clear specification of problems and ready-to-be-used working code solutions (in a cut-and-paste fashion) that work for at least two leading databases such as MySQL and Oracle. • Most existing JDBC-related books provide only generic solutions, which might not work on any vendor’s database. This book shows the importance of "vendor" factor for solving JDBC problems. • Complete coverage of database and result set "metadata" (which is missing from most JDBC books).

This is the only definitive guide to JDBC programming with Oracle8i and 9i. JDBC is the de facto method for accessing an Oracle database from Java.

If you have mastered the fundamentals of the PL/SQL language and are now looking for an in-depth, practical guide to solving real problems with PL/SQL stored procedures, then this is the book for you.