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From the Editor
If OTN has a strong point, it's executing a commitment not only to getting
software into your hands, but also to advising you about what to do with it from that point on—whether you're a novice, an Oracle ACE, or an Oracle Certified Master.
In that spirit, we see the various OTN Technical Article series as strategic "beachheads" for developers and DBAs getting up to speed on new technologies. For example, in the past two years, DBAs have learned how to get up and running quickly with new Oracle Database 10g Release 1 and Release 2 features via Arup Nanda's series, "Oracle Database 10g: The Top 20 Features for DBAs"; both Arup and I have received dozens of appreciative e-mails from readers who have found that information actionable and valuable. Similarly, J2EE developers, beginners, and experts alike have capitalized on the advice provided by luminaries such as Rod Johnson and Craig McClanahan in the "Mastering J2EE Application Development" series, and PHP developers have done much the same with "The Hitchhiker's Guide to PHP" and "DeployPHP" series.
In the next few months, OTN is extending that model to Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) as well as .NET developers.
Get Cooking with BPEL
Since the release of Oracle BPEL Process Manager in 2004, publishing developer resources for using BPEL to create, deploy, and manage BPEL business processes has become a core competency for OTN. That tradition continues with "SOA Best Practices: The BPEL Cookbook," in which real-life Oracle BPEL Process Manager customers offer inside advice about advanced BPEL development projects, such as performing advanced data transformations, integrating BPEL workflow with third-party rules engines, and using BPEL processes for enterprise application integration.
You will not find this information anywhere else, I assure you.
Explore the BPEL cookbook at OTN's Service-Oriented Architecture Technology Center .
Master .NET App Development
with Oracle
Similarly, OTN has become an increasingly hospitable place for .NET developers over the course of the last year. Specifically, the .NET Developer Center, launched late in 2004, is now the nexus of a broad range of software offerings, online training materials, FAQs, and community-oriented content, such as member-contributed technical articles and podcasts. This content offers actionable advice for using Oracle technologies, such as Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio .NET and the Common Language Runtime extensions in Oracle Database 10g Release 2.
For the "Mastering .NET Application Development with Oracle" series, OTN has invited expert developers and DBAs with deep experience in the subject to share some of their personal best practices in a practical, actionable manner. You will learn approaches for a range of processes, from basic tasks such as returning query results from the Oracle Database via ref cursors (authored by Oracle ACE and Oracle Magazine columnist Mark Williams), to generating XML schemas using Oracle Developer Tools for .NET in Visual Studio, to building and deploying .NET stored procedures in the Oracle Database, to working with ADO.NET 2.0 and ASP.NET. In each case, the authors provide sample code or even entire sample applications that vividly illustrate the task in question.
Explore "Mastering .NET Application Development with Oracle".
End of the Beginning
As time goes on, you'll see even more such beachheads appear on OTN. Our commitment to your professional growth is total!
Justin Kestelyn, OTN Editor in Chief
justin.kestelyn@oracle.com
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Most Popular* Content on OTN
For DBAs/Sysadmins:
1. "Oracle Database
10g: The Top 20 Features
for DBAs" (series), by Arup Nanda
2. "Oracle Database 10g Release 2: Top Features for DBAs" (series), by Arup Nanda
3. "Installing Oracle Database 10g on Linux x86," by John Smiley
4. "Build Your Own RAC Cluster on Linux and FireWire," by Jeffrey Hunter
5. "Installing Oracle RAC 10g on Linux x86," by John Smiley
For Developers:
1. "Best Practice PL/SQL" (series), by Steven Feuerstein
2. "Mastering J2EE Application Development" (series), by various authors
3. "Struts Development: Check Your Form with Validator," by James Holmes
4. "The Hitchhiker's Guide to PHP" (series), by various authors
5. "Build a .NET Application for the Oracle Database," by John Paul Cook
*For the two-month period ending July 31, 2005
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New Tech Articles, Columns, & Notes
For Developers
"Managing State in Service-Oriented Architecture"
by Mark M. Davydov
An introduction to using explicit state identifiers to support conversational Web services in an SOA.
DeployPHP, Part 1: "Optimizing PHP and Oracle"
by John Lim
Get a checklist for developing and deploying powerful, scalable PHP applications on Oracle.
DeployPHP, Part 2: "Bringing Data Security to PHP Applications"
by Mikhail Seliverstov
Learn how to build and deploy lightweight PHP front-end applications without compromising data security.
DeployPHP, Part 3: "Accelerating PHP Code Performance for Oracle"
by Ilia Alshanetsky
A guide to easy, effective techniques for accelerating your PHP applications.
"XML Schema: Understanding Structures"
by Rahul Srivastava
Learn how to use XML Schema constructs to declare, extend, and restrict the structure of your XML.
For DBAs/Sysadmins:
"Convert a Single-Instance Database to Oracle RAC 10g on RHEL3"
by Vincent Chan
Learn step-by-step how to convert a single-instance database to Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) 10g on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (RHEL3).
"Oracle Database 10g Release 2: Top Features for DBAs"
Published installments cover features in SQL and PL/SQL, including the manageability, performance, data warehousing and integration, and backup and availability categories.
New Sample Code & Tutorials
Oracle Data Mining Samples
These sample programs written in PL/SQL and Java illustrate each of
the algorithms supported by Oracle Data Mining.
New OTN TechCasts (Podcasts)
"Open Source and the Changing Developer Tools Market"
Oracle Senior Director of Product Management Roel Stalman discusses Oracle's strong support for the JavaServer Faces (JSF) and Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 3.0 specs, and the role of the "rich internet client" in an SOA.
"A Quick Tour of Zend Core for Oracle"
Oracle Product Development Director Richard Rendell describes Zend Core for Oracle, the fully tested and supported PHP 5 distribution that includes integration with Oracle Database 10g client libraries, enabling developers to get up and running in minutes with PHP.
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