Web Servers

Oracle Web Application Server Web Toolkit Reference

Format: Paperback
Author: Bradley D. Brown
ReleaseDate: 01 June, 1998
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Rating:

Bad approach
It is a bad idea to build your development strategy on a tool that is not supported by a major vendor. The book wastes too much time with webalchemy. Oracle products are moving forward too quickly to depend on a tool that probably will not keep pace. Using this book as a reference is difficullt at best. Examples are too complicated for use in presenting a new topic. The author should use the 'hello world' concept that so many other authors do. Prospective buyers should say 'goodbye book'. I have as yet been unable to discover a good reference book for OAS.

An Excellent piece of work for both Beginers & Experts
This book gave me a clear understanding of the Web concepts. I am fairly new to the IT World, specially the Web technology. The book is written very meticulously. The explanations are very clear and to the point with very good examples. Truly, it is a Toolkit Reference and can be used to develop any kind of Oracle Web Application. The book covers all topics from the Installation of the Oracle Web Server to the Development of Oracle Web Applications.

I am using this book very extensively at my office and home. I very highly recommend this book and would purchase all the books written by the author.

This book is a mess
Even the examples are overly complicated, almost like the author(s) are attempting to obscure the very point that needs to be made w/ extraneous code. Granted, there is a lot of good information in this text, however, it's presented in a format that is neither intuative or flowing. It's a same that the documentation on this subject so poor.