Re: web forms to connect to database

From: John Hurley <johnbhurley_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: 16 Jul 2004 09:19:53 -0700
Message-ID: <d4d6f278.0407160819.18d66332@posting.google.com>

Oracle has many different ways of developing web pages. One of the easiest is in PLSQL ... much of what we see from www.oracle.com is (or was originally done) in PLSQL.

It is really as simple as having fairly standard oracle procedures doing their regular plsql bit and (when needed) spitting out html from inside a plsql proc thru the htp package.

htp.p('<HTML>ya da ya da</HTML>');

There's a long history of plsql development within oracle. Originally the OAS did not use apache but now it does.

Really it's hard to install oracle and not get instaneous support for plsql web apps.

If your just getting started you will need to know/learn a little HTML and then jump right in. Here's a couple possible things to look at but you know the oracle doc is all free and it's not badly documented there plus free code samples from OTN/etc.

Oracle Web Application Server Web Toolkit Reference by Bradley D. Brown, Richard J. Niemiec, Joseph C. Trezzo

Oracle Web Applications 101
by Sten E. Vesterli

The corollary of all this is the first 5-10 interactive web pages are fun and great learning then it gets to be well work as usual. Received on Fri Jul 16 2004 - 11:19:53 CDT

Re: web forms to connect to database - newbie question