Oracle and Open Source

Open Source Summary

Table 1-2 lists all of the open source and other programs mentioned in this book. We tried to include the most up-to-date information possible at the time of publication, but because most of these programs are continually being enhanced, make sure to check out the sites listed in the table for current information.

Table 1-2. Open Source Technologies and Related Areas

Tool or Application	Chapter	Description and Online Sites
ACS	Chapter 5	Ars Digita Community System, dynamic web-based solutions http://www.arsdigita.com/pages/toolkit/
ActivePerl	Chapter 2	Win32 Perl from ActiveState http://www.activestate.com http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/ http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/Download.html http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/
AIX	Chapter 2	Unix freeware packages http://ftp.univie.ac.at/aix/
Ant	Chapter 8	Java-based build tool http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/index.html
Apache	Chapter 5	The Apache web server http://www.apache.org/, http://www.apache.org/httpd.html http://www.refcards.com/,http://www.apache.org/dist/ http://httpd.apache.org/docs/windows.html http://www.apache.org/ABOUT_APACHE.html http://httpd.apache.org/dist/binaries/win32/ http://xml.apache.org
Apache JServ	Chapter 7	Apache Java servlet web server http://java.apache.org/jserv/index.html http://java.apache.org/jserv/dist/
Apache mod_java	Chapter 5	Apache Java module http://java.apache.org
Apache mod_perl	Chapter 5	Apache Perl module http://perl.apache.org http://perl.apache.org/#docs
Apache mod_php	Chapter 5	Apache PHP module http://www.php.net
Apache mod_plsql	Chapter 8	Apache PL/SQL module http://www.total-knowledge.com/downloads/mod_plsql/
Apache mod_ssl	Chapter 5	Apache Secure Sockets Layer http://www.apache.org/related_projects.html#apachessl http://www.rsasecurity.com http://www.covalent.net/raven/ssl/ http://www.c2.net/products/sh2/ http://www.int.c2.net/products/sh2/
Aquarium	Chapter 5	Modular web development http://aquarium.sourceforge.net
Big Brother	Chapter 6	Integrated system administration monitoring http://bb4.com http://bb4.com/demo.html
BLT	Chapter 4	Graphical charts for Tcl/Tk http://www.tcltk.com/blt/ ftp://ftp.tcltk.com/pub/blt/ ftp://tcltk.sourceforge.net/pub/tcltk/blt/ http://tcltk.com/blt/
BSD-Unix	Chapter 1	The Berkeley Software Distribution http://www.bsdi.com
C++	Chapter 7	Object-oriented extension to C programming http://www.research.att.com/~bs/homepage.html
Cocoon	Chapter 8	XML web content management http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/
CORBA	Chapter 7	Common Object Request Broker Architecture http://www.omg.org http://www.corba.org
CVS	Chapter 1	Concurrent Versions System http://www.cvshome.org
DB Prism	Chapter 8	Java servlet Oracle application http://www.plenix.com/dbprism/doc/Home.html http://www.telecomrg.com/darylcollins/prism/
DB_Browser	Chapter 6	Perl CGI database management http://www.summersault.com/software/db_browser/
DBD-Chart	4	Perl DBI driver interface for rendering charts and graphs http://home.earthlink.net/~darnold/dbdchart/
DBInspector	Chapter 8	Java SQL tool http://dbinspector.com
Dbitotcl	Chapter 3	Perl DBI linkage to Tcl http://www.xdobry.de/dbitotcl/
dbMan	Chapter 4	Perl/Tk database tool http://dbman.linux.cz http://www.fi.muni.cz/~sorm/dbman/
DCOracle	Chapter 3	Oracle connectivity package for Python http://www.zope.org/Products/DCOracle/ http://www.python.org/topics/database/modules.html
DDL-Oracle	4	Perl package to reverse-engineer DDL from Oracle database components http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/modules/by-authors/id/R/RV/RVSUTHERL/
EmbPerl	Chapter 5	Dynamic Perl embedded within HTML http://perl.apache.org/embperl/
Epingle	Chapter 9	GTK+ interface builder http://www.epita.fr/~theber_s/epingle/epingle.html
Gaby	Chapter 10	GTK+ notepad data-handling package http://gaby.netpedia.net
gASQL	Chapter 10	GTK+ relational modeling tool http://malerba.linuxave.net
Ghostscript	Chapter 4	Open source PostScript printing http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
The GIMP	Chapter 9	The GNU Image Manipulation Tool http://www.gimp.org http://www.gimp.org/download.html http://manual.gimp.org/ http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/index.html
Glade	Chapter 9	GTK+ Interface Builder http://glade.pn.org
GNOME	Chapter 9	GNU Network Object Model Environment, the Linux-based desktop GUI environment http://www.gnome.org http://www.helixcode.com/desktop/download.php3 http://www.gnome.org/start/source.html
Gnome Transcript	Chapter 10	Generic database table management http://gtranscript.sourceforge.net
GNOME-DB	Chapter 10	GNOME-related database framework http://www.gnome.org/gnome-db/
GNU gcc	Chapter 1	The GNU C compiler http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html http://gcc.gnu.org http://www.redhat.com/swr/i386/gcc-java-2.95.1-3.i386.html http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/gcc.html http://sunfreeware.com http://ftp.univie.ac.at/aix/aix432/ http://jazz.external.hp.com/src/gnu/download2_95_2.html
GNU Project	Chapter 1	Philosophy and aims of the GNU License http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-free.html
GRAD	Chapter 9	GTK+ Rapid Application Development http://www.penguin.cz/~grad/
GTK- -	Chapter 9	Object-oriented GTK+-based GUI wrapper http://gtkmm.sourceforge.net
GTK+	Chapter 9	The extension of the GIMP ToolKit for other Linux GUI programs http://www.gtk.org http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/ ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/ http://gtkada.eu.org http://www.gtk.org/beos/ http://www.be.com http://gwydiondylan.org/gui.phtml http://www.netlabs.net/hp/richieb/gtk_eiffel.html http://www.ping.de/sites/zagadka/guile-gtk/ http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/gtk/ ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/objc-gtkkit/ http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~gnu-pascal/ http://www.rit.net/sporter/gtkplusperl/ http://www.daa.com.au/~james/pygtk/ http://user.sgic.fi/~tml/gimp/win32/
HP-UX Unix	Chapter 2	Freeware packages http://jazz.external.hp.com/src/index.html
iAS	Chapter 7	Oracle Corporation Internet Application Server http://www.oracle.com/ip/deploy/ias/index.html?web.html http://www.oracle.com/ip/deploy/ias/
Jakarta	7	The central Apache collection of Java projects http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/index.html http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/index.html http://jakarta.apache.org/ecs/index.html http://jakarta.apache.org/james/index.html http://jakarta.apache.org/jetspeed/site/index.html http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/index.html http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/docs/index.html http://jakarta.apache.org/oro/index.html http://jakarta.apache.org/regexp/index.html http://jakarta.apache.org/slide/index.html http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/index.html http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/index.html http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/index.html http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/index.html http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/index.html http://jakarta.apache.org/watchdog/index.html
Java	Chapter 7	Platform-independent, object-oriented programming from Sun http://www.javasoft.com http://www.gamelan.com http://technet.oracle.com/tech/java/ http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/index.html http://java.sun.com/jdc/ http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/html/index.html http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/guide/jar/jarGuide.html
Java Database Explorer	Chapter 8	Java GUI SQL tool http://www.geocities.com/RodeoDrive/1620/jexplorer.html
Java packages	Chapter 7	Java for specific Unix flavors http://www.ibm.com/java/jdk/download/ http://www.unixsolutions.hp.com/products/java/index.html http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html http://www.freebsd.org/java/
Java’s JDBC	Chapter 7	Java DataBase Connectivity http://java.sun.com/products/jdbc/driverdesc.html http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/jdbc/getstart/bridge.doc.html http://technet.oracle.com/software/utilities/software_index.htm http://technet.oracle.com/software/tech/java/sqlj_jdbc/software_index.htm http://download.oracle.com/otn/utilities_drivers/jdbc/817/ http://technet.oracle.com/docs/products/oracle8i/doc_library/817_doc/java.817/ http://download.oracle.com/otn/utilities_drivers/jdbc/817/ http://technet.oracle.com/tech/java/ http://technet.us.oracle.com/tech/java/sqlj_jdbc/htdocs/jdbc_faq.htm http://technet.oracle.com/tech/java/jroadmap/jdbc/listing.htm#998321 http://technet.oracle.com/tech/java/info/jdbc_doc.htm
Java’s JDK	Chapter 7	Java Developers Kit, for producing applets, Swing GUIs, and more http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/ http://java.sun.com/j2se/
Java’s JSDK	Chapter 7	Java Servlet Development Kit, for developing server-side Java web applications http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/ http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/download-windows.html http://java.sun.com/products/OV_jservProduct.html http://www.apl.jhu.edu/~hall/java/Servlet-Tutorial/ http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=Servlets http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/download.html http://www.servlets.com
Java Swing	Chapter 7	Java’s supplement to AWT (Abstract Windowing Toolkit) for building GUIs http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/index.html http://www.inprise.com/jbuilder/ http://www.webgain.com/Products/VisualCafe_Overview.html http://www.sun.com/forte/ http://www7.software.ibm.com/vad.nsf/Data/Document4600 http://www.netbeans.org
Java XML	Chapter 7	Linkage between Java, Oracle, and XML http://www.jdom.org http://www.openxml.org http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/sgml-xml.html http://technet.oracle.com/tech/xml
JBoss	8	Open Source EJB Server http://www.jboss.org
jDBA	Chapter 8	Java DataBase Administrator SQL tool http://sourceforge.net/projects/jdba/ http://www.jdba.org
JSP	Chapter 5	JavaServer Pages, embedded HTML content http://www.sun.com/software/embeddedserver/index.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/
Karma	Chapter 6	Perl CGI web-based remote database monitoring http://www.iheavy.com/karma/
KDE	9	Kool Desktop Environment http://www.kde.org
Kora	Appendix B	Linux client for PL/SQL http://members.nbci.com/uwagner/kora/
LGPL	9	Lesser GPL License http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html
Linux and Oracle	Chapter 1	Oracle FAQs, installation and tuning http://www.redhat.com/marketplace/oracle/ http://platforms.oracle.com/linux/ http://www.calderasystems.com/partners/industry/oracle.html http://www.suse.com/us/solutions/partners/oracle/ http://www.doag.de/mirror/frank/faqunix.htm http://jordan.fortwayne.com/oracle/ http://www.intrex.net/miket/SetupConfig.txt http://linas.org/linux/raid.html http://www.tomshardware.com http://www.linux.org/info/index.html
Linux development	Chapter 1	Alan Cox’s Linux diary http://www.linux.org.uk/diary/
Lonyx	Appendix B	Oracle information resource http://www.lonyx.com
Lynx	Chapter 5	Text-based HTML browsing http://lynx.browser.org
MacPerl	4	An adaptation of Perl for the Macintosh http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~neeri/macintosh/perl.html http://www.macperl.com http://www.macinstruct.com/tutorials/macperl/index.shtml
Mason	Chapter 5	Embedded scripting language http://www.masonhq.com
MinML	8	Java XML configuration file processor http://www.wilson.co.uk/xml/minml.htm http://freshmeat.net/projects.minml/
MySQL	Chapter 6	Open source database http://www.mysql.com
Nexus	Chapter 7	Freely available Java web server http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/ak/java/nexus/
OCI	Chapter 2	The Oracle Call Interface http://technet.oracle.com/tech/oci/ http://technet.oracle.com/doc/server.815/a67846/toc.htm
Oddis	Chapter 4	Tcl/Tk-based Oracle Data Dictionary tool ftp://www-b.informatik.uni-hannover.de/ftp/software/oddis/oddis-2.11.html
Open source in general	Chapter 1	Key books, project definition, and other related information http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cb/ http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/index.html http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition_plain.html http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.html http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/perens.html http://www.opensource.org http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/toc.html
Orac	Chapter 4	Perl/Tk tool for DBAs http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/authors/id/A/AN/ANDYDUNC/ http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/modules/by-module/Tk/ http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/modules/by-module/DBI/ http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/modules/by-module/Shell/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/perldbadmin/
Oracletool	Chapter 6	Perl CGI-based DBA tool for the Web http://www.oracletool.com http://www.oracletool.com/download.html
OraExplain	Chapter 3	Perl/Tk SQL tuning tool available in DBD::Oracle download http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/DBD
Oraperl	Chapter 2	Original Perl extension for Oracle usage http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/2990/oraperl.html
OraSnap	Chapter 6	Oracle performance monitoring http://www.stewartmc.com/oracle/orasnap/
Orasoft	Chapter 10	Linux-based Oracle tools http://www.orasoft.org http://www.advantio.com
Oratcl	3	Tcl’s Oracle connectivity project http://download.sourceforge.net/oratcl/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/oratcl/ http://oratcl.sourceforge.net http://oratcl.sourceforge.net/pub/oratcl30_man.html http://www.nyx.net/~tpoindex http://www.nyx.net/~tpoindex/tcl.html#Oratcl
OTN	Chapter 2	The Oracle Technology Network http://technet.oracle.com http://otnxchange.oracle.com
Perl	Chapter 2	Major scripting language http://www.perl.com http://www.perl.org http://www.perldoc.com http://www.perl.com/pub/v/faqs/ http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/src/ http://www.perl.org/press/history.html http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/
Perl DBD::Oracle	Chapter 2	The Oracle driver for Perl DBI http://dbi.symbolstone.org/cgi/moduledump?module=DBD::Oracle http://velocity.activestate.com/docs/ActivePerl/site/lib/DBD/Oracle.html http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/DBD/
Perl DBI	Chapter 2	The generic DataBase Interface for Perl http://dbi.symbolstone.org http://dbi.symbolstone.org/doc/faq.html http://www.perl.com/reference/query.cgi?database http://velocity.activestate.com/docs/ActivePerl/site/lib/DBI.html http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/DBI/ http://velocity.activestate.com/docs/ActivePerl/faq/ActivePerl-faq2.html http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/status.html
Perlplus	Chapter 3	The Perl/Tk Netscape plug-in http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/modules/by-authors/id/F/FH/FHOLTRY/ http://home.rmi.net/~fholtry/
Perl/Tk	Chapter 3	The main GUI ToolKit for Perl http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/ptk/ http://www.cpan.org/doc/FAQs/tk/ptkTOC.html http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/comp.lang.perl.tk/ptkFAQ.html http://www.pconline.com/~erc/perltk.htm http://mysite.directlink.net/gbarr/PerlTk/tk-modlist.html http://www.egroups.com/group/Perl-Tk/ ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/modules/by-module/Tk/ http://www.lehigh.edu/~sol0/ptk/ptk.html http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/status.html
PHP	Chapter 5	Major web scripting language http://www.php.net http://www.php.net/manual/en/intro_history.php
PHP and Oracle	Chapter 5	Oracle connectivity for PHP http://www.php.net/manual/ref.oracle.php
PhpMyAdmin	Chapter 6	PHP database administration tool http://www.phpwizard.net/projects/phpMyAdmin/index.html
PhpOracleAdmin	Chapter 6	The Oracle port of PhpMyAdmin http://www.phporacleadmin.org
PLNet and PL/SQL	Appendix B	The open source PL/SQL project http://plnet.org http://plnet.sourceforge.net http://www.gt.ed.net/keith/plsql/ http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-OSD.html http://www.revealnet.com/Pipelines/PLSQL/index.htm http://www.revealnet.com
Python	Chapter 3	Major object-oriented scripting language http://www.python.org http://www.python.org/topics/database/modules.html http://www.python.org/ftp/ http://www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html#1.15 http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.0/ http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePython/Download.html http://www.ActiveState.com/download/contrib/Microsoft/NT/ http://www.ActiveState.com/download/contrib/Microsoft/9x/ ftp://ftp.scriptics.com/pub/tcl/tcl8_3/
QPL	9	The Qt licenses http://www.trolltech.com/products/download/freelicense/license.html http://www.trolltech.com/products/purchase/pricing.html
RPMs	Chapter 3	Red Hat Package Manager for code distribution http://rpm.redhat.com/RPM-HOWTO/index.html http://rpmfind.net http://www.python.org/2.0/
Solaris Unix	Chapter 2	Freeware packages http://sunfreeware.com http://sunfreeware.com/faq.html
Squid	Chapter 5	Web caching http://www.squid-cache.org
Tcl and Tcl/Tk	Chapter 3	Major scripting language that innovated the original Tk GUI ToolKit http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/ http://www.tcltk.com http://sourceforge.net/foundry/tcl-foundry/ ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/ http://dev.scriptics.com http://dev.scriptics.com/doc/tclHistory.html http://dev.scriptics.com/software/tcltk/downloadnow84.tml
Tcl Expect	Chapter 3	Automation extension for Tcl http://expect.nist.gov
Tcl GroupKit	Chapter 3	Groupware development for Tcl http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/projects/grouplab/groupkit/
Tcl [incr Tcl]	Chapter 3	Object-oriented Tcl http://tcltk.com/itcl/
Tcl [incr Tk]	Chapter 3	Object-oriented Tcl/Tk http://tcltk.com/itk/
Tcl [incr Widgets]	Chapter 3	Mega-widget set for Tcl/Tk http://tcltk.com/iwidgets/index.html
Tcl Tix	Chapter 3	The Tk Interface extension http://tix.mne.com
TclX	Chapter 3	An important Tcl extension http://www.neosoft.com/TclX/ http://dev.scriptics.com/ftp/tclx/
Tomcat	Chapter 7	Java-based web serving http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/index.html http://jakarta.apache.org/site/faqs.html http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/jakarta-tomcat/src/doc/index.html
Turbine	Chapter 5	A Java-based framework for web applications http://java.apache.org/turbine/
utPLSQL	Appendix B	The unit testing framework for PL/SQL http://www.extremeprogramming.org http://oracle.oreilly.com/utplsql/ http://www.egroups.com/group/utPLSQL/ http://www.stevenfeuerstein.com
VDK	Chapter 9	The Visual Development Kit for GTK+ http://www.guest.net/homepages/mmotta/VDKHome/vdkbuilder.html
VDKBuilder	Chapter 9	Rapid Application Development for VDK http://www.guest.net/homepages/mmotta/VDKHome/vdkbuilder.html
ViennaSQL	Chapter 8	The Java SQL GUI tool http://sourceforge.net/projects/vienna/ http://vienna.sourceforge.net http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/techDocs/hi/repository/
World Wide Web	Chapter 5	Information on the World Wide Web’s founder http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
WWWdb	Chapter 6	Text-based searching within databases http://wwwdb.org ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/ ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/ ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/id/G/GR/GRICHTER/ ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/id/R/RB/RBOW/ ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/id/M/MS/MSCHWERN/ ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/id/N/NW/NWALSH/ ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/id/S/ST/STBEY/ http://linux.twc.de/wwwdb/
wxPython	Chapter 3	wxWindows for Python http://wxPython.org ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/python/
wxWindows	Chapter 3	The C++ GUI framework for all operating systems http://wxperl.sourceforge.net http://www.roebling.de http://www.wxwindows.org/
X Windows System	Chapter 9	The GUI windowing system originally for Unix http://www.x.org http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/directory/X.html
Zend	5	The PHP scripting engine http://www.zend.com