 | |
| |
Oracle 8i and Java: From Client Server to E-Commerce
 |
Author: Elio Bonazzi, Glenn Stokol
List Price: $49.99
Our Price: Click to see the latest and low price
ISBN: 0130176133
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR (22 June, 2001)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 261,255
Average Customer Rating: 3 out of 5
|
Customer ReviewsRating: 3 out of 5
don't expect depth
The first section start with a quick intro to data modeling and general SQL/Oracle syntax. Mid section's focus is on Java data conduits to Oracle (JDBC, SQLJ, etc.). The last part of the book covers a broad range of technologies from IDEs to enterprise components. If you're a Oracle beginner with some java background this book may be of use. The authors cover the material in short succinct snippets. This also benefits middle tier developers - between beginners and experts. For them, this book can be a very useful reference for frequent lookups.
Rating: 1 out of 5
terrible!
This book is full of error, even in the code listings! did the authors actaully compile and run the examples? it is very obivious that most of the materials are copied, pasted then rearranged from
somewhere else. it is also wordy, boring and misleading starting from charpter one! Its only use I can think of would be a door stopper due to its thickness and weight.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Poor Effort
This book contains numerous typos, and such bad layout of the examples it is very hard to follow. The "<>" typo on p321 is an extremely bad demonstration of this. It seems to have missed one last cycle of proof-reading and editorial fix-ups before it went to press.But onto the contents... the authors have really taken on a huge task in trying to document the Oracle PL/SQL world and the java world in one book. Since it doesn't assume the reader knows either world in depth all the examples and comments must be kept simple and therefore are of limited use. It starts off with an overview of each topic, and builds on this very slowly. Chapter 20 "Using Oracle Replication to Build Distributed Systems" should be removed completely. This is a very complex topic and the chapter only discusses Read-only snapshot views. No mention of Advance Replication, or the problems these forms of replication can cause in a database. Barely touching on these topics in this way is worse than not including this chapter at all. The scope of what this book tries to cover is so large, but it still feels as though it has been filled out to make it fat and expensive. The 1000+ pages are paded out with the badly laid out source code of trivial examples. This book is at best an introduction on how Java relates with Oracle databases, I certainly don't think it is value for money. I advise searching for a better option in order to learn how best to interface these 2 worlds.
Similar Products
· Oracle and Java Development
| | | | | |
| |
