Introducing
WebDB
O
ne of the important features added to Oracle8i is really
more than just a feature—it’s a complete product called
WebDB. As the name implies, WebDB is a tool that helps you to
take the data in your Oracle database and make it available to
users on the Web. Although WebDB comes with Oracle8i, you
can also download the product for no cost from the Oracle
Technical Network at
http://technet.oracle.com.
This chapter is meant to be a brief introduction to WebDB, which
is a comprehensive product. It provides an overview of the
makeup of WebDB, an example of using WebDB to create a report
to familiarize you with the product, and some information on
how you can perform basic administrative functions for WebDB,
since this will quite possibly be a part of your overall job.
If you want to learn considerably more about WebDB, we rec-
ommend that you consult The Oracle WebDB Bible by Rick
Greenwald and James Milbery (IDG Books Worldwide, Inc.).
An Overview of WebDB and
Internet Computing
WebDB is a tool that has been designed to create Internet
computing application systems. Internet computing is a term
that applies to an infrastructure that uses a Web browser as
the key user interface on the client and a server on the back
end. Unlike client/server computing, Internet computing uses
a different communication protocol, HTTP, and a different
display interface, HTML, and typically implements stateless
transactions. Stateless transactions are complete within each
page of data exchanged.
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In This Chapter
Overviewing WebDB
and Internet
computing
Using WebDB
Administering
WebDB
Exporting and
importing WebDB
components
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