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OTN Community Bulletin
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From the Editor
Here's some big news: Oracle Database 10g Release 2 is now available for download from OTN. As you've come to expect from OTN, we've complemented the software itself with a variety of value-added content designed to help you understand as well as deploy new features and functionality as quickly as possible. For example, Oracle ACE Arup Nanda has updated his very popular "Top Oracle Database 10g Features for DBAs" series with a Release 2 addendum, and "Dr. DBA" himself, Ken Jacobs, describes his favorite new features in one of Oracle's new OTN TechCasts. (Learn more about Oracle's OTN TechCasts below.)
As always, OTN's Oracle Database Product Center is the best place to start for a download or for database-specific information: oracle.com/technology/database.
Justin Kestelyn, OTN Editor in Chief
justin.kestelyn@oracle.com
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Community News
Podcasting Comes to OTN:
Oracle's OTN TechCasts
With Oracle's OTN TechCasts RSS feed, you can now use podcast software such as iPodder (or Apple iTunes 4.9 natively) to subscribe to brief audio interviews—fireside chats, as it were—with technical managers and evangelists at Oracle about recent technology announcements.
For those of you unfamiliar with the podcasting phenomenon, the term refers to publication of audio files via a syndication mechanism such as RSS (Really Simple Syndication). In other words, a podcast feed is an RSS newsfeed, only with audio files, instead of Web pages, included for download.
Our first TechCast, "Understanding Oracle's New Eclipse EJB 3.0 Tools," consisted of a chat with Oracle Product Manager Shaun Smith about Oracle's effort to provide EJB 3.0 tools under the Eclipse license. Smith also goes into detail about why EJB 3.0 is such a huge improvement over EJB 2.x for crafting a persistence layer in your applications.
Other current TechCasts include "Using Oracle Developer Tools (ODT) for Visual Studio .NET," in which Oracle Principal Product Manager Christian Shay provides a detailed description of how ODT makes Oracle-based development so much easier for .NET coders; "Oracle on Apple OS X: The Power and the Glory," in which Oracle Technical Partnerships Manager Adele Evans discusses the history of the Oracle-Apple partnership and why the Oracle-on-Apple OS X/Xserve combination now provides a viable entry point for low-cost clustered computing; and the Jacobs interview described above. In each case, you'll get information you can act on, straight from the source, about those respective topics.
Subscribe to Oracle's OTN TechCasts, or simply listen to standalone TechCast MP3s.
DeployPHP series
The availability of Zend Core for Oracle (possibly by the time you read this column, or shortly thereafter), a supported PHP 5 distribution integrated with Oracle Database 10g client libraries, will open up more opportunities for developers and architects who want to explore deployment of PHP apps on top of Oracle. See "Oracle and Zend Team Up on PHP" for more details.
In the 2004 technical-article series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to PHP," developers got an introduction to the PHP language from experts such as PHP creator Rasmus Lerdorf, a look into the future of that language, and exposure to interesting, real-world experiences involving the use of PHP in large-scale development projects. Equipped with this information, you may already have made the choice yourself to use PHP in mainstream projects.
In the new multipart "DeployPHP" series, OTN—in collaboration with PHP runtime-engine company Zend Technologies—provides actionable resources to make PHP deployment on top of Oracle faster and easier. PHP experts from around the world share best practices about some of the most critical aspects of PHP application deployment and tuning, including optimizing PHP application performance, securing PHP apps via Virtual Private Database, and distributing database-driven applications using the open-source PEAR repository.
Download Zend Core for Oracle and read both technical article series at the PHP Developer Center.
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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. "Installing Oracle Database 10g on Linux x86," by John Smiley
3. "Build Your Own RAC Cluster on Linux and FireWire," by Jeffrey Hunter
4. "Database Security: Beyond the Password," by George Jucan
5. "Bitmap Index vs. B-tree Index: Which and When?," by Vivek Sharma
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. "Build a .NET Application for the Oracle Database," by John Paul Cook
5. "The Hitchhiker's Guide to PHP" (series), by various authors
*For the two-month period ending May 31, 2005
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New Tech Articles, Columns, & Notes
For Developers
"A Hands-on Introduction to BPEL, Part 2: Advanced BPEL"
by Matjaz B. Juric
Learn how to use BPEL to model complex business processes via these hands-on examples.
"Using Oracle ADF Faces in Existing JSF Applications"
by Andrei Cioroianu
Learn how to integrate Oracle ADF Faces into existing JSF projects and take advantage of the rich UI components provided by that framework.
"Out-of-Container EJB 3.0 Testing with Oracle Entity Test Harness"
by Debu Panda
Learn how Oracle's Entity Test Harness makes it easier to practice Test-Driven Development with EJB 3.0 entity beans.
For DBAs/Sysadmins
"Installing Oracle RAC 10g on Linux x86"
by John Smiley
With Oracle Database 10g, many previously difficult-to-attain response-time metrics are now at your fingertips.
"Build Your Own Oracle RAC 10g Cluster on Linux and FireWire" (an Oracle 10g update to this popular guide)
by Jeffrey Hunter
Learn the basics of installing Oracle Real Application Clusters 10g on Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux, from the bare metal up (for evaluation purposes only).
"Database Security: Beyond the Password"
by George Jucan
Keep your confidential data secure from (internal or external) intruders—even if passwords have been compromised—with Oracle Database built-in features.
New Sample Code & Tutorials
ADF Toy Store Demo 10.1.2
This MVC-based Web storefront application illustrates how Oracle ADF simplifies building the model layer, and how the Apache Struts and ADF frameworks simplify implementation of the view and controller layers.
Order Booking Tutorial for BPEL Process Manager 10.1.2
Learn how to design and execute a sophisticated BPEL process that uses synchronous and asynchronous services, parallel flows of execution, conditional branching logic, fault-handling and exception management, and more.
Using Oracle HTML DB on a Single Instance
This Oracle By Example series takes you through installing Oracle HTML DB 1.6 on a single instance and then building various data-driven Web applications.
Integrating FOP with Oracle JDeveloper
Convert an example XML document to PDF with Oracle JDeveloper's Formatting Objects Processor (FOP).
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