Jan Machacek

Installation and Administration

Installation and configuration of 10g Application Server isn’t a trivial matter. There are many different products, dependencies, and deployment topologies available. It’s important to understand these relationships in order to determine which one is right for your environment. Special attention must be paid to the server configuration to guarantee an error-free installation. Setting up the environment and installing the software in a logical manner is important, especially when you conduct additional installations.

Configuring Web Services

In Chapter 11, we talked about application clients that call EJBs directly over RMI. Though these are great behind the firewall, they’re not as useful when you need to support hundreds of custom clients or integrate with remote partners running non-Java systems. Fortunately, the software industry has defined standard web services protocols that let you expose your applications to the world through XML messages passed over HTTP.

General Server Configuration

When first installed, OC4J can immediately deploy and run many simple J2EE components without any extra configuration. However, in most cases, you’ll need to customize a few server settings to set up data sources, JMS queues, and other common resources. When using the OC4J Standalone Edition, these settings are changed by manually editing a collection of configuration files.

Crystal Reports for .NET

Writing reports is part of many software applications. Every day you probably come across some type of report that was generated by an application. This could be business reports you get at work, utility bills you receive in the mail, or even something as simple as a receipt for groceries you purchased. For most applications this is a required part of the specification. An application that lets a user enter and manage data, but not print it out, lacks functionality that most end users expect. It’s very important for developers to know how to use some type of report writing tool to integrate reports into their applications.

Building Windows Applications

While the Windows applications created in Visual Studio.NET look very similar to those created using earlier versions of Visual Studio, a great deal has changed behind the scenes. The main benefit that Visual Studio.NET brings to forms-based applications is the equal footing that developers are put on regardless of the language being used. The underlying classes used are now the same whether one is developing inVB.NET, C#, C++.NET, or any other.NET language. This is a huge step forward from Visual Studio 6, where Visual Basic was dominant in many market sectors in comparison to Visual C++, and developers were faced with many intricacies involved in creating rich applications using Visual C++.

Team Development with VS.NET

Visual Studio.NET is an excellent platform for an individual developer to build any kind of application for the Microsoft platform. Most of us, however, spend our time in teams of two or more, building larger applications that require the skills of multiple developers.

Mobile Client Development

Visual Studio is filled with mobile development tools. In this chapter, I’ll explore with you two key areas of mobile development: Mobile Web application development Smart device development

Web Application Development

Today, all sorts of people have their own websites, from the home user to the director of a large corporation. There are about 945 million Internet users worldwide at present, and it is projected that this number will increase to 1.1 billion in 2005.1 Therefore, the world is becoming increasingly dominated by the Internet, and the Internet is becoming more and more an indispensable tool in our lives.

Developing with Oracle 10g AS

So you’ve chosen which edition of log AS you’ll be running in the production environment for your application, but the decision still remains which edition to use for development and testing. During the course of this chapter we’ll address the nuances of each edition and explore how requirements for development differ from requirements for testing.

Overview of Features, Editions, and Releases

So you’re ready to start evaluating Oracle Application Server 10g, but find yourself lost in a sea of editions, releases, and non-J2EE features. In this chapter, we’ll cut through the marketing hype and look at exactly what each version has to offer. In particular, we’ll cover the following: How to choose between the Java, Standard, and Enterprise Editions How to make sense of the release numbers Which J2EE technologies are standard in all application servers Which features are specific to Oracle 10g AS Some of the non-J2EE features in 10g AS such as Oracle HTTP Server (OHS), Oracle Internet Directory (OID), Single Sign-On (SSO), Web Cache, and Clustering