Part V. Programming the Oracle Database with Web Services

Unless you have been living in a cave for the last four or five years, you have repeatedly heard about Web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA) as the new trend in IT, which allows resource consolidation, virtualization, and provisioning for optimized use, thereby reducing IT costs.

In Part I, we looked at Java within the database. In Part II, II, and IV, we looked at the APIs for persisting Java states or retrieving SQL data; the resulting code may run either within the database (i.e., manipulate the data in situ) or as a Java applet, Java EE framework/component, or stand-alone Java SE application/framework connected to the database.

In Part V, we’ll switch our focus from programming ...

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