Oracle JDeveloper 10g for Forms & PL/SQL Developers: A Guide to Web Development with Oracle ADF
by Peter Koletzke, Duncan Mills
Introduction
Learning without thought is labor lost;thought without learning is perilous
—Confucius (551 BC–479 BC), The Confucian Analects
Kicking and screaming. That’s what most Oracle Forms and PL/SQL developers feel like doing when told they need to convert their skills to Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE). We don’t mean to imply that long-time Oracle Forms and PL/SQL developers like us are an immature lot—only that J2EE is so new and, seemingly, so complex that traditional Oracle developers fear a severe loss in productivity, a painful learning curve, and an ensuing failure of their first J2EE project. These are valid concerns, and addressing these concerns was the main motivation for writing this book.
The motivation for writing ...
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