Re: Books on Java Development using Oracle JDBC Connections
- From: ryan_gaffuri@xxxxxxxxxxx
- To: oracledba.williams@xxxxxxxxx, ArnoldS@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 20:09:37 +0000
There is no reason to buy a jdbc book. The oracle documentation and the stuff
on the web covers everything. JDBC books don't give you anything you can't get
for free. The oracle install(both client and server) comes with a sample jdbc
class that you can play with to learn how to use the jdbc. There is not alot to
it as long as you know some java...
The oracle jdbc doc is good. Also use the one on java.sun.com. There are two
very good jdbc forums one at java.sun.com and one at www.javaranch.com
J2EE actually is a pretty wide open standard and means alot of different
different things(Java server faces, ejbs, and/or spring framework plus
hybernate). Don't mess with that yet. It is seperate from jdbc. No one uses all
of it. Some of it(like ejbs) are horrible. Some of it like Spring and Hybernate
were not even created by sun since java is open source.
Tomcat is just a webserver. This is for serving html screens using java
code(servlets and jsps). This again is seperate from jdbc. All this stuff does
is allow you to make your screens more dynamic, so you wrap the html inside
java. For example you can code a loop if you don't know how many rows you need
to return to build a table. It's got some other stuff too, but it's seperate
from jdbc.
The webserver are all pretty much the same. I have found the tomcat docs to be
pretty weak. It's open source so people go in and comment out and change
parameters with new releases and don't document it well. The book I used to
learn from is 'java for the world wide web with servlets, jsps, and ejbs'. It's
3 years old. Some of the parameters in the conf files have changed so its not
totally accurate. You will have to make a few parameter changes to get tomcat
to work. However, it's a great beginner book.
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From: "Dennis Williams" <oracledba.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Sandra,
I think you have a good idea. However, I think that you may not want to limit
yourself to Oracle or JDBC. You should understand things from the perspective
of your Java developers. Are they using J2EE? Then learn the way Java
communicates with the database and maybe even write a Java program yourself.
Understand the strengths and limitations of how Java works with the database.
Dennis Williams
On 3/23/06, Arnold, Sandra <ArnoldS@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I need to find any good books on Java Development using Oracle JDBC
connections. I am finding that I need to know more about this than I do since
our main focus here is web applications development using Tomcat. Can anyone
recommend any?
Thanks,
Sandra Arnold
Senior DBA
NCI Information Systems
US Dept of Energy, OSTI
Oak Ridge, TN 37830
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