April 2001
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
13h 2m
English
Content preview from Oracle and Open SourceBecome an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Chapter 6. Building Web-Based Oracle Applications
The world of web-based Oracle applications is bursting at the seams these days, with a well-rounded and growing list of tools ranging from snapshot-based performance monitoring tools and database administration gizmos to data browsing and remote online transaction processing (OLTP) systems.
What are web-based applications? We loosely define such applications as those whose output or interface is viewed through a web browser. Some of these applications are Perl-based CGI scripts; others are just SQL scripts whose output is HTML. Chapter 5, describes the fundamental technologies on which these applications are built. If you’ve read that chapter, you will have a solid foundation for understanding the web-based Oracle applications described in this chapter.
The advantage to employing a web solution is that you need to deploy it only once, at one web address, and thereby provide a tool that anyone with a web browser can access from anywhere on the network. This is a powerful application paradigm indeed, especially for busy administrators who may manage dozens of databases and who want to maintain a satellite’s-eye view of what’s going on. If you deploy over the Internet, as well as over your corporate intranet (with the appropriate security measures, of course), you’ll be able to administer your systems much more simply and effectively, especially if you’re away from your base system, need instant access, and sometimes have difficulty ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.