CHAPTER 1The Right Approach to Building Applications

In this chapter, we will look at some of the “softer” issues regarding Oracle best practices. These issues pertain to system design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance. They are not really Oracle-specific, but they are approached from an Oracle perspective. Each of these items would be relevant in virtually every system, regardless of the software or even the goal (what you were trying to build).

This will be the least technical of all of the chapters in this book. Nevertheless, it may be the most important one. Time after time, the mistakes I see being made are more procedural than technical in nature. Here are a few examples:

The tendency to put up walls between developers ...

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