| Building Oracle XML Applications gives Java and PL/SQL developers a
rich and detailed look at the many tools Oracle provides to support XML
development. It shows how to combine the power of XML and XSLT with
the speed, functionality, and reliability of the Oracle database. The
author delivers nearly 800 pages of entertaining text, helpful and
time-saving hints, and extensive examples that developers can put to
use immediately to build custom XML applications. The accompanying
CD-ROM contains JDeveloper 3.1, an integrated development
environment for Java developers.
This book is a hands-on, practical guide that teaches you the nuts and bolts of XML and the family
of Internet standards related to it and shows how to exploit XML with your Oracle database using
Java™, PL/SQL, and declarative techniques. It’s a book for Oracle developers by an Oracle
developer who has lived the technology at Oracle Corporation for over ten years and has directly
catalyzed the company’s XML technology direction and implementation. As you read this book, I
hope you will come to appreciate the wide variety of tools Oracle provides to enable you to
combine the best of XML with the best of Oracle to build flexible, database-powered applications
for the Web.
This book abounds with tested, commented, and fully explained examples because—in the
unforgettable words of a high school mentor of mine—“you only get good at something by
working through an ungodly number of problems." The examples include a number of helper
libraries and utilities that will serve to jump-start your own Oracle XML development projects (see
“About the Examples" later in this Preface for details). |
