Oracle® Web Application Programming for PL/SQL® Developers

Chapter 16: Building the APP

The inclusion of many of these owa_util.* built-in functions/procedures can be found in the completed example application at the companion Web site for this book, located at http://www.phptr.com/boardman/. Visit the Web site periodically to share and discuss your answers with other readers. To reduce the coding required for repetitive and often necessary tasks such as obtaining information about CGI environment variables, printing the source of a specified procedure, or creating a calendar in HTML, to name a few, Oracle provides several useful PL/SQL built-in utilities. Many of these utilities are included in the OWA_UTIL package and can be included in your Web page procedures to assist in debugging, enhancing, ...