Oracle 9i: Jdeveloper Handbook

by Peter Koletzke and Paul Dorsey

JDeveloper is a standard in Oracle application development. This handbook covers four major areas: overview of the product and guide to using the JDeveloper 9i IDE; using JDeveloper 9i to build Java... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0072223847
• ISBN13: 9780072223842
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media
• Length: 976 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 7.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

An excellent source for newbies or JVeterans

I am actually a Lotus Notes programmer by trade (OK, stop laughing!) who has been dabbling with a variety of other programming languages for many years (C++, Java, VB, C#, etc), so I have had some exposure to Object Oriented programming and developer GUI's going back to GWBasic. I have also recently begun to dabble with Oracle 8i and 9i, installing them on my laptop and on a Linux box so that I would have Oracle available to me as a learning resource. I am by no stretch of the imagination a programming wizard, but I can quickly make myself useful in any programming environment with good reference material as my starting point.I recently decided that I needed to try to put myself in a better position in the job market by extending my working knowledge of both Java and Oracle. Oracle JDeveloper appeared to be the best tool for accomplishing this objective and the Oracle 9i JDeveloper Handbook has proven to be an excellent learning source for such a vast product.There are several factors that make JDeveloper a complex and powerful tool. First of all, it allows you to create and edit all things Java -- from basic Java classes and simple Java console applications, to JavaBeans, JSP pages, Swing/AWT Java applications and applets, Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs), servlets, you name it. Additionally, the JDeveloper product has a class modeling tool that at first I thought was just for drawing UML diagrams, but it actually can be used the way that UML is supposed to be used -- to produce actual database tables that embody the properties that you specify in the JDeveloper GUI. All of this functionality is already a massive undertaking but then you add on to that the use of Oracle Business Components for Java (BC4J) and things get really hairy.Probably one of the most difficult things to wrap my brain around is the BC4J architecture, not because it is confusing but because it is very powerful and seems to be very extensive and very well thought out. I can say this because in the JDeveloper Handbook the examples and the scenarios that are used to explain the BC4J object model and architecture effectively convey the benefit and flexibility of using BC4J.JDeveloper is very integrated with the Oracle database platform. It very quickly and easily can read your database tables and do a lot of the grunt work of putting an object model over your database structures using BC4J. And, as I mentioned earlier, you can "forward engineer" your tables by creating your UML diagrams first and using those to create the underlying database tables (aren't tables just there to enable the object model to persist?). As I continued through the book, the BC4J concepts (which I must emphasize are a very important part of this product) become more and more familiar and I see their value more and more.This is all to say that the JDeveloper tool is much more extensive than I first realized and obviously has a very high level of integration with the Oracle database platform. Ther

First comprehensive overview on BC4J

i have only studied the parts on oracle's business components for java. the concepts and the use of bc4j are explained very good and useful for people who are not j2ee-experts.it helps me alot in developing bc4j-based applications.trevi

Great for Novice, Too

I'm new to rapid development tools and to BC4J, and I found this book very helpful in developing a Java application with Swingcomponents and especially with BC4J. There are exercises that are very helpfulin demonstrating many of the concepts, and I recommend doing those exercises if the concepts are at all new to you. (They also summarize "what just happened" after you do an exercise which is helpful since you can sometimes lose the big picture in all the keystrokes.) I focused a lot on the BC4J chapters. Although this book does not claim to teach Java, it does have a chapter which describes the main concepts of Java needed to use JDeveloper. I found this book very well written and organized.

Clear and useful guidebook

If you're starting to work with JDeveloper, this is a very useful book. I suspect it would also be helpful to people who've been working with it and have run into snaffus . The text is clear without being condescending and the examples are easy to follow . The overview section of J2EE architecture is nicely demystifying, and the second part of the book (the in depth discussion of BC4J) is very well written and clear.Sure, you can learn JDev without this handbook, but messing about with it until you do is NOT an efficient way to learn it. For people who have real deadlines and real people depending on them for Java-based ap development, this book is fantastic.

Ignore the other reviews

This book is GREAT. It does exactly what it says it does. It covers JDeveloper in depth. There is a whole section on BC4j (the guts of the product). Of course it doesn't cover Java, SQLJ or JDBC. There are loads of books on those topics. The book is 1000 pages as it is. To develop using JDev, you need Java, SQLJ, JDBC, XML, etc. Do you expect to get all of that in one book? Read the intro, it SAYS that it doesn't cover those topics. It won't teach you French either.