June 2001
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
11h 36m
English
book
Oracle Essentials: Oracle9i, Oracle8i and Oracle8, Second Edition
by Rick Greenwald, Robert Stackowiak, Jonathan Stern
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Oracle’s interface to the Web has undergone dramatic changes since the original publication of this book. With Oracle9i, Oracle has created the Oracle9i Application Server (Oracle9iAS), which is intended to act as a middle tier or web server and to provide integration with the Oracle9i database. This chapter includes a brief summary of the feature set of Oracle9iAS, including the following new major components:
- Oracle9i Web Cache
Provides middle-tier caching for HTML pages and fragments
- Oracle9i Database Cache
Provides middle-tier caching of data from the Oracle9i database
- Clickstream Intelligence
Provides business intelligence-type analysis for web server log files
In addition to discussing Oracle9iAS, this chapter includes new sections describing:
- Dynamic Services
The Dynamic Services technology allows you to specify any data source, such as a web page, as a data service and to combine this data into your applications.
- XML
Although the XML enhancements in Oracle9i are also discussed in other portions of the book, this chapter includes a summary of the XML capabilities of Oracle9i.
- iFS
The Internet File System (iFS) is a part of both the Oracle9i Application Server and the Oracle9i database. iFS is used to store and access nonrelational data in the Oracle9i database.
- Oracle9iAS Portal
This portal-building tool is a part of the Oracle9i Application Server, but it is covered in some depth in this chapter because you may find it useful in getting information from ...
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