Oracle Essentials: Oracle9i, Oracle8i and Oracle8, Second Edition
by Rick Greenwald, Robert Stackowiak, Jonathan Stern
Oracle Internet Developer Suite
Many Oracle tools are available to developers to help them present data and build more sophisticated Oracle database applications. Although this book focuses on the Oracle database, this section briefly describes the main Oracle tools for application development: Oracle Forms Developer, Oracle Reports Developer, Oracle Designer, Oracle JDeveloper, Oracle Discoverer Administrative Edition, and Oracle Portal.
Oracle Forms Developer
Oracle Forms Developer provides a powerful tool for building forms-based applications and charts for deployment as traditional client/server applications or as three-tier browser-based applications via Oracle9i Application Server. Developer is a fourth-generation language (4GL). With a 4GL, you define applications by defining values for properties, rather than by writing procedural code. Developer supports a wide variety of clients, including traditional client/server PCs and Java-based clients. Version 6 of Developer adds more options for creating easier-to-use applications, including support for animated controls in user dialogs and enhanced user controls. The Forms Builder in Version 6 includes a built-in JVM for previewing web applications.
Oracle Reports Developer
Oracle Reports Developer provides a development and deployment environment for rapidly building and publishing web-based reports via Reports for Oracle9i Application Server. Data can be formatted in tables, matrices, group reports, graphs, and combinations. ...
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