Oracle Application Server 10g Web Development (Oracle Press)

Oracle Database 10g: The Complete Reference (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)

Oracle Database 10g DBA Handbook

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Oracle Application Server 10g Administration Handbook (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)

Format: Paperback
Author: John Garmany
ReleaseDate: 25 March, 2004
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Rating:

The Standard!
I felt that it was a good book and overall I have little ill to say about it. I used this book to deploy Oracle Application Server 10g infrastructure on Linux and UNIX. The examples are well written and do a good job of reinforcing what you read in the handbook. You read a little then do an example, then read some more, then add to the example and so on. You don't need any Administrative experience to use this book just a decent understanding of application design. The only criticism I could offer is that the editor should have used arrows when content is being continued on a new line for reasons of page space so that readers will know and understand (beginners can have trouble with this). It's a good book for learning Oracle Application Server 10g as a whole from the ground up and for this reason it's worth the money. It's not an overnight crash course (if that is what you are looking for).

Very Nice Job
I found it very valuable especially if you are deploying iAS 10g (9. I have taken the iAS 10 Admin I course from Oracle, and wish that I read this book prior to the class.0. 4) on Linux. I highly recommend the book to iAS administrators/DBA's.

Summary of the White Papers
Although the authors do make reference the book intends to simplify the rather large amount of documentation, it falls short of a complete guide. As an administrator/implementor of these systems, there are many aspects to administering the 10gAS system.

It is good starting point for a default implementation--detailed installation steps, with moderate emphasis on design (ex. touching on distributed administration and delegation). Thus provides adequate groundwork.

The forefront of administration of this product is design choices. For example, the Internet Directoy piece is major component to the architecture--its design greatly impacts administration of the entire system. Perhaps this book was not intended to be a design resource (since it is designated an "Administration Handbook"), but administration in the field of application servers is highly dependent upon design decisions.

The book would be a fair addition to a reference library, but not necessary if one is willing to sift through the vendor "White Paper" documentation--as large and convoluted as it may be. .