question for daniel morgan

Hi,
This question if for Daniel Morgan. I'm in Houston, TX and I'm trying to learn the applications development side of Oracle. I have 10 years of experience as a unix/windows systems admin and DBA - but no experience with development languages (just didn't get around to it...that's my fault!). I'm working on a project where I' working with my friends in NYC to install and develop an Oracle 9i application server. I've read all the docs for this procedure to prepare for installing the infrastructure, but I'm also curious to learn how to develop the applications (I'm going to be a "junior" developer with my friends in NYC who will actually be doing the work via VPN - I'll just watch and learn).
I'm a student at the Univ. of Houston, I asked around for classes that deal with oracle development and java....turns out there aren't too many to choose from! I was told that this univ. is a Microsoft shop! They have tons of .Net stuff...but not that much in the way of Java or Oracle. This seems insane to me!
So...after looking at the link that you have for the Univ. of Washington....could you recommend books that deal with learning Java and oracle applications development? If you could, please state which books are used for class :)
I'm really eager to learn oracle applications development - even if the local university doesn't teach it!

Thank you,

Oskar

ps. I tried looking at the UW site to see if I could do distance training for the oracle development classes...but when I looked, it said they were only local where you have to physically attend....maybe it will change soon?
I've also looked at other universities in Houston...they do have oracle development training..but most of them are boot camp style - just a few weeks! This is very heavy material, I doubt I'll be able to get much out of it in a cram style class. For this sort of material which I consider very serious - I'd much rather prefer the traditional semester class approach - like Univ. of Wash. has!!! Received on Mon Jun 30 2003 - 13:11:13 CDT