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Oracle Application Server 10g: J2EE Deployment and Administration

Publisher: Apress
Authors: Michael Wessler Erin Mulder Rob Harrop Jan Machacek

ISBN: 1590592352
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Summary: Best new book for Oracle 10g Application Server
I have a couple other books on Oracle 10g Application Server. This one beats them hands down for comprehensive discussion from install, design to administer the complex product. As an Oracle DBA I need to support this environment and found the book useful.

Summary: Oracle Java apps step-by-step
This is a step-by-step walkthrough of Oracle App Server programming. It goes from application architecture basics through twenty-one chapters on using various APIs and services (with one on installation) to end on clustering and failover. Graphics are used quite heavily, often showing page by page use of various Wizards.

Where the book excels is in it's explanation of the various XML descriptor standards required to register web services, or message queues, or various other system services. Often these things are opaque mojo and the author demystifies these files and shows exactly where modifications need to be made.

The code samples are relatively short, just enough to flesh out the topic.

This is more a field guide than an indefensible reference work. The chapters are too brief and the coverage too scanty to be an in-depth treatise on any one topic. As long as you understand this you won't be disappointed.

Summary: No Oracle lock in
The 10g is Oracle's answer to IBM's WebSphere and JBoss. Wessler certainly wastes no time in delineating how you can use 10g to develope J2EE applications. There are some mundane chapters on installing and configuring it. Important, granted. But the crux of the book is the chapters on making and deploying web applications, EJBs and Web Services within 10g. If you look here, 10g seems to allow for any standard J2EE application to run within it.

Crucially, suppose you commit to designing and developing one of these applications, to use 10g to hook to an Oracle database. Then your code can be largely independent of that database and 10g. In principle, you can migrate it to another J2EE compliant container, over a different database, and have only minimal changes. Realistically, your code under 10g will have all sorts of little Oracle dependencies. But this book suggests that with careful design, you can safely use 10g and still preserve a migration option. No Oracle lock in.

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Oracle Application Server 10g Web Development (Oracle Press)

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Chris Ostrowski Bradley D. Brown

ISBN: 0072255110
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Summary: Works for me!
I used this book to deploy Oracle 10g Applications through Oracle Developer Suite 10g and JDeveloper 10g. I felt that it was a good book and overall I have little ill to say about it. The examples are well written and do a good job of reinforcing what you read in the chapter. You read a little then do an example, then read some more, then add to the example and so on. You don't need any Programming experience to use this book just a decent understanding of programming logic. The only criticism I could offer is that the editor should have used arrows when content is being continued on a new line for reasons of page space so that readers will know and understand (beginners can have trouble with this). It's a good book for learning Oracle 10g Applications as a whole from the ground up and for this reason it's worth the money. It's not an overnight crash course (if that is what you are looking for).

Summary: A must have book for the OracleDeveloper.
Great book. I've been waiting for this book to be release and I wasn't disappointed. Full of great information on how to put this great Oracle tool to work. Easy explanations and great examples will have you up and programming in no time. The authors real know their stuff. Great Job! If you use Oracle's application server, this book is a must have!

Summary: Excellent book on 10AS with the web
This is a much-needed title and Chris Ostrowski has done an excellent job in covering all of the topical areas of 10gAS web development.

The text is clear and easy-to-read and he has excellent real-world examples.

I espcially like the sections on deploying with J2EE and XML, and the discussion on using JDeveloper. This is an excellent companion book for the "Oracle Application Server 10g Administration Handbook", and overall, an excellent, well-written text.

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	Oracle Application Server 10g Administration Handbook (Osborne ORACLE Press Series) Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Authors: John Garmany Donald K. Burleson
ISBN: 0072229586 List Price: $49.99 Amazon Price: $31.49 Usually ships in 24 hours Buy this book from amazon.com or from amazon.co.uk	Avg Cusomer Rating: 5 Reviews: Summary: The Standard! I used this book to deploy Oracle Application Server 10g infrastructure on Linux and UNIX. I felt that it was a good book and overall I have little ill to say about it. The examples are well written and do a good job of reinforcing what you read in the handbook. You read a little then do an example, then read some more, then add to the example and so on. You don't need any Administrative experience to use this book just a decent understanding of application design. The only criticism I could offer is that the editor should have used arrows when content is being continued on a new line for reasons of page space so that readers will know and understand (beginners can have trouble with this). It's a good book for learning Oracle Application Server 10g as a whole from the ground up and for this reason it's worth the money. It's not an overnight crash course (if that is what you are looking for). Summary: Very Nice Job I have taken the iAS 10 Admin I course from Oracle, and wish that I read this book prior to the class. I found it very valuable especially if you are deploying iAS 10g (9.0.4) on Linux. I highly recommend the book to iAS administrators/DBA's. Summary: Summary of the White Papers As an administrator/implementor of these systems, there are many aspects to administering the 10gAS system. Although the authors do make reference the book intends to simplify the rather large amount of documentation, it falls short of a complete guide. It is good starting point for a default implementation--detailed installation steps, with moderate emphasis on design (ex. touching on distributed administration and delegation). Thus provides adequate groundwork. The forefront of administration of this product is design choices. For example, the Internet Directoy piece is major component to the architecture--its design greatly impacts administration of the entire system. Perhaps this book was not intended to be a design resource (since it is designated an "Administration Handbook"), but administration in the field of application servers is highly dependent upon design decisions. The book would be a fair addition to a reference library, but not necessary if one is willing to sift through the vendor "White Paper" documentation--as large and convoluted as it may be. Summary:

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Oracle Application Server 10g Essentials

Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Authors: Robert Stackowiak Donald Bales Rick Greenwald

ISBN: 0596006217
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Summary: Very general.
This book covers general aspects of Oracle Application Server 10g. It is like reading an Oracle documentation, it does not give any interesting tips and tricks that I would like to see when I pay for a book, rather than seeing the same content when I read an online Oracle documentation. The only good aspect of this book might be the fact that they give you an organized but general overview of Oracle Application Server 10g, it is helpful and practical but does not go deep enough to cover some aspects that you will not see on an online Oracle documentation.

Summary: Competently done
What the heck is an "application server"? At the simplest level, it is a web server that can make dynamic web pages. Typically, the data in these pages come from a back end SQL server. As the authors show us here, the Oracle server can easily do this, where, unsurprisingly, the database is Oracle's.

But there is more. A common design is for the server to incorporate as much of the business logic as possible, via EJBs. There are extensive descriptions here on how to use the Oracle server for this. This server competes with those from JBoss and IBM's Websphere. Sadly, there is no mention at all of these alternatives, let alone a comparative analysis.

Another recent hot topic is Web Services. These are separate from making dynamic web pages. Rather, it is meant to permit different programs on different computers talk to each other, and for designers to plug these together in some easy fashion. The book gives a short discussion on how Oracle's server can be used for this means. Skimpy. Not that Oracle is necessarily worse off than others who are offering Web Services. The entire field is nascent, and groping for a few big hits. Maybe, just maybe, you might be able to use Oracle's server in building one of these?

Summary: Too theoretical, no practical value
The book does credit to it's title. The information in the book
is indeed at a very essential level.... To such an extent as to have too little practical value for an Oracle profesional. If you are interested in a light theoretical introduction into iAS and it's capabilities then this might be a book for you. On the other hand, if you want to learn how to install,configure and manage iAS then this book is not the one you should read. It struck me to find out that the book does not contain any url's on how to manage the iAS, no examples of how to configure anything. A chapter on Forms server that does not explain how to configure a forms server or how to deploy forms or even how to simply test if it works. The same counts for the chapter on Reports server. A chapter on OC4J that does not explain how to deploy java in Oracle's container.

The authors too often refer to the manual. If I wanted to read the manual then why buy this book? The manual is for free.

I think it is better to read Don's iAS book and supplement it with the manuals on technet.

I am a keen reader of o'reilly books, but am sorry to say that I have found this one's practical content lacking.

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OCA Oracle Application Server 10g Administrator Exam Guide (Exam 1Z0-311) (Osborne Oracle Press S.)

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Authors: Sam Alapati

ISBN: 0072262710
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Summary: Not good
The author demonstrated lack of understanding of the topics covered, and no hands-on experience.

Summary: A very confusing book
A very confusing book. It actually describes the Exam 1Z1-311 and not 1Z0-311 as it is stated here on Amazon.com. The 1Z1-311 exam is a beta exam and not available at Oracle any more.
Besides that the book consists of a lot of copy/paste sentences from Oracle documentation set. I dropped the book and started to read the documentation set instead.

Summary: Prepare for the Exam and Use as a Reference
Managing a big database system like Oracle is not a trivial matter. The software is so complex, with many settings and fittings that can dramatically affect performance. This book is not on things like programming Oracle using SQL or any of the other big application areas. It is on the more mundane, and probably more important things like:

Installation
Managing the Application Server
Managing the Internet Directory
Managing the HTTP Server
SSL and OracleAS Security
The OracleAS Portal
J2EE Applications OracleAS Web Cache

The book is intended as a comprehensive preparation guide for the Oracle Application Server 10g Administrator Certified Associate (OCA) exam. Beyond that, this is a good reference book on how to set up and manage an Oracle 10g database.

The book is supplied with a trial exam on CD-ROM that also provides the answers and detailed explanations. With registration on-line, an additional exam is available.

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	Oracle Web Application Server Web Toolkit Reference Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies Authors: Bradley D. Brown Richard J. Niemiec Joseph C. Trezzo
ISBN: 0078824338 List Price: $44.99 Amazon Price: This item is currently not available. Buy this book from amazon.com or from amazon.co.uk	Avg Cusomer Rating: 1 Reviews: Summary: Bad approach The book wastes too much time with webalchemy. It is a bad idea to build your development strategy on a tool that is not supported by a major vendor. Oracle products are moving forward too quickly to depend on a tool that probably will not keep pace. Using this book as a reference is difficullt at best. Examples are too complicated for use in presenting a new topic. The author should use the 'hello world' concept that so many other authors do. Prospective buyers should say 'goodbye book'. I have as yet been unable to discover a good reference book for OAS. Summary: An Excellent piece of work for both Beginers & Experts I am fairly new to the IT World, specially the Web technology. This book gave me a clear understanding of the Web concepts. The book is written very meticulously. The explanations are very clear and to the point with very good examples. Truly, it is a Toolkit Reference and can be used to develop any kind of Oracle Web Application. The book covers all topics from the Installation of the Oracle Web Server to the Development of Oracle Web Applications. I am using this book very extensively at my office and home. I very highly recommend this book and would purchase all the books written by the author. Summary: This book is a mess Granted, there is a lot of good information in this text, however, it's presented in a format that is neither intuative or flowing. Even the examples are overly complicated, almost like the author(s) are attempting to obscure the very point that needs to be made w/ extraneous code. It's a same that the documentation on this subject so poor. Summary:

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	OCA: Oracle Application Server 10g Administration I Study Guide (Exam# 1Z0-311) Publisher: Sybex Authors: Robert J. Bryla April Wells
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	Oracle Application Server Portal Handbook Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Authors: Chris Ostrowski
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