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Summary: Where's The e-Commerce?
Review: If your looking for Java and Oracle and are a beginner this can be somewhat helpful. As far as e-Commerce is concerned, I feel the title is very misleading and if your looking for any sort of detail whatsoever look elsewhere. On the plus side, it's a quick read and can be read cover to cover in a few hours.
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Summary: Don't bother
Review: There is a general sloppiness in the text that is totally inappropriate for a book aimed at developers who are starting "from scratch." For example, the SQL DELETE command shown on p. 98 will not run because the FROM keyword is omitted. The correct syntax is shown on the previous page. Another example is the incomplete syntax for the INSERT command on p. 85 --- the VALUES keyword is omitted. The INSERT examples on the following pages do have the VALUES keyword. Finally I must object to the claim "... the standard SQL language is quite limited in what it can really do..." p.78 I'm constantly amazed at the bloated and grossly inefficient code written by procedural programmers who believe that standard SQL is quite limited.
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Summary: Very valuable
Review: This book contains a lot of valuable information about developing e-Commerce applications using Oracle8i technology. All the major issues involved in developing such applications are discussed with examples, and most importantly using Oracle8i technologies.Prior to reading this book, I was experienced with Java but had not used it with Oracle8i. This book helped me in bridging the gap and help me understand how to best use the two technologies in a practical manner.
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Summary: Excellent book
Review: This book is a must read for anyone planning to work with Oracle8i and Java. It discusses technical issues related to e-Business initiatives and explains how to address the challenges while using Oracle8i and Java. An online coffee shop is progressively built throughout the book. The book is very well written and it provides enough Oracle8i and Java information making it easy to read and understand.
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Summary: Almost, but not quite!
Review: This book is a real value for those who want to get started on Oracle with Java. Less pages and enough to digest information. Of course, if you are loking to master Java technologies or Oracle or eCommerce, this not the deal for you. (...)
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Summary: Almost, but not quite!
Review: This book lacks the detail required to get someone new up and running. The first 2 chapters are the best, but still need a little polishing. The rest of the book is lacking quite a bit of neccessary information so a user can read it and use the concepts.
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Summary: Good introduction to Oracle8i and Java
Review: This book provides a solid introduction to Java technology and how to take advantage of it using Oracle8i -- all within the framework of building an e-commerce web application. While the book doesn't require any screen shots to explain the process (as opposed to step-by-step instructions), it does not include the actual code to build the e-commerce code. Instead, the author focuses on explaining the technology (Java and Oracle8i) and how everything hangs together. Chapters 1 to 3 cover the Oracle database architecture as well the means to create and develop a database. Chapters 4 to 10 explains Java, its components and how it fits with Oracle8i. Chapters 11 to 15 cover advanced topic including optimization and security. Overall, this book would be ideal for the beginner to intermediate reader who would like to get a medium-to-high level grounding in Java and Oracle8i technology in the context of building a web app. The text is well written and covers Java and Oracle8i in enough detail with ample examples to get you started.
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Summary: Great book, but the code ...
Review: This is the book I have been looking for for long time, combine Java and Oracle and finish a project with updated techniques. I finished it in two days,.It is geat. This book does what it says: finish an e-commerce project from scratch, but with wrong assumptions: no previous Oracle or Java knowledge. Oracle may not be necessary, but some previous database programming knowledge can help a lot. If one could master an e-commerce project development by just reading a less than 400 page book, either you must be super smart or IT professions should not have had that high pay. I do think EJBs and CORBA parts are oversimplified, but how can you curse too much, considering each of these topics should have its own book? For the code, it appears only to exist a few days. I downloaded it, but I can not locate it from the same place any more, after I read that other people could not locate it. Interested or frustrated? I dropped a star because of the code.
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