Developing Oracle Forms Applications (Bk/CD-ROM)

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Summary: Solid book on Oracle forms development
Review: I like this book a lot, especially the running tutorials based on sample databases, but unfortunately I now need to use Developer/2000 2.0. I hope the author updates this book for the new version.

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Summary: Good introductory to Oracle Forms
Review: I'm an old hand at Oracle Forms, having worked with it since version 1.3. When a friend recommended this book, I thought it would be another week wasted, glossing over the same old commands and explanations. I couldn't have been more wrong. Much to my suprise (and embarrassment) this book is chock-full-o'tid-bits. Even including a section (albeit brief) on how to integrate Developer Forms with other applications, like MS Word, and Excel. I do, however, have 2 complaints with the book: 1)The book was written with screens in Windows 3.11 instead of Win 95, this will do nothing but confuse the novice and 2)it is riddled with mistakes in the tutorials. My recommendations is to wait for a newer, cleaner release. Once it comes out, I believe you will be hard pressed to find a better tutorial to Developer Forms.

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Summary: A very good tutorial book, however, needs to be updated.
Review: I'm an old hand at Oracle Forms, having worked with it since version 1.3. When a friend recommended this book, I thought it would be another week wasted, glossing over the same old commands and explanations. I couldn't have been more wrong. Much to my suprise (and embarrassment) this book is chock-full-o'tid-bits. Even including a section (albeit brief) on how to integrate Developer Forms with other applications, like MS Word, and Excel. I do, however, have 2 complaints with the book: 1)The book was written with screens in Windows 3.11 instead of Win 95, this will do nothing but confuse the novice and 2)it is riddled with mistakes in the tutorials. My recommendations is to wait for a newer, cleaner release. Once it comes out, I believe you will be hard pressed to find a better tutorial to Developer Forms.

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Summary: Good introductory to Oracle Forms
Review: This was the only book I was able to found in bookstores specifically on Oracle Forms. It covers all the main features in a concise and clear manner. It serves as a good tutorial in writing simple forms projects. One thing the books doesn't tell the user is the flow logic works differently depending on the objects being called (program units, functions, triggers, buttons, alerts, menus, blocks and etc) from the traditional top down approach in conventional programming languages. The reader may find this a bit confusing initially when their form project isn't working exactly as might expected.

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Summary: Tutorials OK, but not a reference book
Review: When I was new to Oracle Forms 2 years ago, this was the only book in the bookstore on Forms. I got it, but have used it only a half dozen times since then. As an experienced programmer, I need a reference book so I can look up, say, a trigger and what it means and under what conditions it fires. This book is unsuited for that kind of task, and so I have generally found this book not useful to me at all.

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Summary: Tutorials OK, but not a reference book
Review: When I was new to Oracle Forms 2 years ago, this was the only book in the bookstore on Forms. I got it, but have used it only a half dozen times since then. As an experienced programmer, I need a reference book so I can look up, say, a trigger and what it means and under what conditions it fires. This book is unsuited for that kind of task, and so I have generally found this book not useful to me at all.