Re: question for daniel morgan

pheonix1t wrote:

> 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!!!

We are just a few miles from Microsoft's Redmond campus and I've taught in both Mary Gates Hall, named by Bill after his mother, and the Paul G. Allen Computer Science building, named by Paul, I presume, after himself. So, of course, we teach Oracle rather than .NeT. BTW both are beautiful buildings with the best possible facilities. For that I thank them both.

Back to your question ... Oracle can be front-ended with many tools not just Java. You can use the built-in packages HTP and HTF to dynamically output HTML from stored procedures. You can connect via JDBC and ODBC with everything from Acces to VB to ColdFusion to Java. And, of course, one can write using C, C++, etc. It all depends on what one wishes to accomplish. Oracle itself has JDeveloper for Java and Oracle Forms too.

Before I could recommend a book I'd have to know more about what tool is being used in the development. Java is Java and I don't feel qualified to recommend Java books. Feel free to contact me directly off-line using the email address below.

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Daniel Morgan
http://www.outreach.washington.edu/extinfo/certprog/oad/oad_crs.asp
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
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