CHAPTER 28Putting It All Together

Looking back over the previous chapters, it is obvious that Oracle has an extensive XML platform across all major Oracle development languages. In this chapter, we discuss design and application decisions that you must make when you approach the implementation of your solution on Oracle. First we take a look at the platform from a tier-to-tier functionality point of view and the issues associated with performing XML processing on each. Then we discuss XML support in the database and the various strategies, including their advantages and disadvantages. Next we focus on the individual language decision from a functionality and run-time point of view. Finally, we finish up by exploring how the Oracle XML platform ...

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