Description
Book SynopsisThis text ties together the commercial world of Oracle and the free-wheeling world of open source software. It describes nearly 100 open source tools, from the widely applied to the Oracle-specific. It shows how to obtain the software and how to adapt it to best advantage.
Table of ContentsPreface 1. Oracle Meets Open Source Introduction to Open Source Open Source Summary The Open Source Definition 2. Connecting to Oracle The Oracle Call Interface API Perl 3. Tcl, Perl, and Python Why Scripted GUIs? Connecting to Oracle Tcl/Tk Perl/Tk Python 4. Building Oracle Applications with Perl/Tk and Tcl/Tk Orac Oddis Building Applications with Oratcl and BLT 5. Web Technologies Databases and the Web The Apache Web Server Using Perl with Oracle Web Applications Using Java with Oracle Web Applications Using HTML Embedded Scripting with Oracle Web Applications 6. Building WebBased Oracle Applications Karma Oracletool OraSnap DB_Browser PhpMyAdmin and PhpOracleAdmin WWWdb Big Brother 7. Java Java Foundations JDBC: Java DataBase Connectivity Java GUIs Java and the Web Apache JServ 8. Building Oracle Applications with Java jDBA ViennaSQL DBInspector DB Prism 9. GNOME and GTK+ Windowing Foundations The GNOME Project Programming with GTK+ 10. Building Oracle Applications with GNOME and GTK+ Orasoft Applications Suite GNOMEDB gASQL Gnome Transcript Gaby A. Oracle8i And Linux B. PL/SQL and Open Source C. For Further Reading Index