Publisher: O'Reilly Media Released: April 2001 Pages: 426
Oracle & Open Source is the first book to tie together the commercial world of Oracle and the free-wheeling world of open source software. As this book reveals, these two worlds are not as far apart as they may seem. Today, there are many excellent and freely available software tools that Oracle developers and database administrators can use, at no cost, to improve their own coding productivity and their system's performance. Moreover, many of the finest Oracle developers are now making their source code freely available so their peers can build upon this code base. Oracle Corporation is even porting its RDBMS to Linux and starting to incorporate a growing number of open source tools in the company's own software.
Oracle & Open Source describes close to 100 open source tools you can use for Oracle development and database administration, from large and widely known open source systems (like Linux, Perl, Apache, TCL/Tk and Python) to more Oracle-specific tools (like Orasoft, Orac, OracleTool, and OraSnap). You'll learn how to obtain the software and how to adapt it to best advantage. The book abounds with code examples, download and installation instructions, and helpful usage hints.
Not only does it tell you how to find and use existing open source code;Oracle & Open Source gives you the details and the motivation to build your own open source contributions and release them to the Oracle community. You'll learn all about tools like the Oracle Call Interface (OCI) and Perl-DBI (Database Interface), which provide the glue allowing new open source tools to link into commercial Oracle software.
With Oracle & Open Source as a guide, you'll discover an enormous number of highly effective open source tools, while getting involved with the thriving community of open source development. |
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Chapter 1 Oracle Meets Open Source -
Introduction to Open Source -
Open Source Summary -
The Open Source Definition -
Chapter 2 Connecting to Oracle -
The Oracle Call Interface API -
Perl -
Chapter 3 Tcl, Perl, and Python -
Why Scripted GUIs? -
Connecting to Oracle -
Tcl/Tk -
Perl/Tk -
Python -
Chapter 4 Building Oracle Applications with Perl/Tk and Tcl/Tk -
Orac -
Oddis -
Building Applications with Oratcl and BLT -
Chapter 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 -
Chapter 6 Building Web-Based Oracle Applications -
Karma -
Oracletool -
OraSnap -
DB_Browser -
PhpMyAdmin and PhpOracleAdmin -
WWWdb -
Big Brother -
Chapter 7 Java -
Java Foundations -
JDBC: Java DataBase Connectivity -
Java GUIs -
Java and the Web -
Apache JServ -
Chapter 8 Building Oracle Applications with Java -
jDBA -
ViennaSQL -
DBInspector -
DB Prism -
Chapter 9 GNOME and GTK+ -
Windowing Foundations -
The GNOME Project -
Programming with GTK+ -
Chapter 10 Building Oracle Applications with GNOME and GTK+ -
Orasoft Applications Suite -
GNOME-DB -
gASQL -
Gnome Transcript -
Gaby -
Appendix Oracle8i And Linux -
Downloading Oracle8i for Linux -
Installing Oracle8i on Linux -
Q & A for Oracle on Linux -
Improving Performance on Linux -
Appendix PL/SQL and Open Source -
PLNet.org -
utPLSQL -
More PL/SQL Links -
Appendix For Further Reading -
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Colophon |
- Title:
- Oracle and Open Source
- By:
- Andy Duncan, Sean Hull
- Publisher:
- O'Reilly Media
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- Print:
- April 2001
- Pages:
- 426
- Print ISBN:
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Andy Duncan Andy Duncan is the coauthor of Oracle & Open Source (O'Reilly, 2001), as well as Perl for Oracle DBAs (O'Reilly, 2002). The first book arose after Andy's creation, in 1998, of the Orac Perl/Tk tool for Oracle DBAs. Since then, he has worked mainly as an independent development and DBA consultant, and has counted both Oracle Corporation and Sun Microsystems among his long-term clients. In addition to performing Oracle, Perl, and Java consultancy work, Andy teaches as a senior instructor for Learning Tree International, covering both introductory and advanced Perl courses. He lives in Oxfordshire, England. View Andy Duncan's full profile page. -
Sean Hull Sean Hull is an Oracle DBA and web developer plying his trade as an independent consultant with his own firm, iHeavy Inc., in New York City. He focuses on integrating open source technologies with commercial technologies such as Oracle, and has serviced many successful Silicon Alley companies. His practice is growing steadily with an expanding network of associates offering a wide range of database, web, and Internet-related services. He is the author of Karma, a web-based open source Oracle monitoring tool, and a major contributor to the Orac DBA tool. He also contributes to the telelists Oracle email list and the dbi-users email list. On his days off, you might find him practicing Capoeira, a Brazilian martial art. He resides in Manhattan, where he enjoys the fast pace, great restaurants, culture, and art. He can be reached at shull@iheavy.com. View Sean Hull's full profile page. |
Colophon Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The animals on the cover of Oracle & Open Source are garden spiders. Garden spiders (Areneus diadematus) are orb-spinning garden dwellers. They're about one to one and three-quarter inches long, generally brownish in color, with a white cross pattern on their abdomen, formed by the guanine crystals they excrete as a waste product. All spiders are members of the class Arachnida. In mythology, Arachne was a master weaver who, bold and supremely confident of her abilities, challenged the goddess Minerva to a weaving contest. Both wove beautiful, perfect tapestries, but even Minerva had to admit that Arachne's was superior. In a fit of jealous rage, Minerva destroyed Arachne's tapestry, and Arachne, humiliated and despondent, tried to hang herself. Minerva turned the rope from which Arachne hung into a web, and Arachne herself into a spider. The orb web that a garden spider weaves is the quintessential spiderweb, several spokes radiating from a central point, joined by a widening spiral of silk. The silk comes from six spinnerets on the underside of the spider's body. Each spinneret has hundreds of tiny spigots, each of which in turn is connected to a silk gland that can produce five different types of silk. The output of the spigots is joined together into a thread, and the spider uses one thread or several joined together to perform different tasks. The spiral lines of the web, for instance, are made up of two threads of one type of silk plus a third thread of sticky silk; the spider "twangs" each stretch of line to distribute the sticky glue into many tiny globules along the length of the line. Once the garden spider has finished weaving her web (and it's only the female garden spiders who weave webs), she builds herself a small nest a short distance from the web; she keeps in contact with the web through a telegraph line of silk, which alerts her when an insect blunders into the web. If it's a small bug that she can overpower, she takes it directly to the nest to kill and eat. Larger bugs she traps in a cocoon of silk and often stores to eat later. Leanne Soylemez was the production editor and copyeditor for Oracle & Open Source. Colleen Gorman was the proofreader, and Emily Quill and Sarah Jane Shangraw provided quality control. Ellen Troutman Zaig wrote the index. Ellie Volckhausen designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. Emma Colby produced the cover layout with QuarkXPress 4.1 using Adobe's ITC Garamond font. Melanie Wang and David Futato designed the interior layout based on a series design by Nancy Priest. Anne-Marie Vaduva converted the files from Microsoft Word to FrameMaker 5.5.6 using tools created by Mike Sierra. The text and heading fonts are ITC Garamond Light and Garamond Book; the code font is Constant Willison. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano and Jessamyn Read using Macromedia FreeHand 9 and Adobe Photoshop 6. This colophon was written by Leanne Soylemez. |
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