Oracle Corporation provides tutorials and samples to help you develop business
intelligence applications using BI Beans. Tutorials are the best place to begin
because they guide you through the entire development process, step-by-step.
You learn how to define OLAP objects, how to build an application that uses
those objects, then how to deploy that application.
Tutorials can be accessed from the JDeveloper Help system or downloaded from
Oracle Technology Network ().
Oracle Technology Network always has the latest version of the tutorials.
Before you begin
Before you can use the tutorials, you must perform several installation and
configuration tasks, as described in Installing
the Demo Database Schema.
Overview of BI Beans application development
BI Beans can be incorporated into both HTML-client and Java-client applications.
In HTML-client applications, users work in their preferred browser, and Java
does not run on their machines. In Java-client applications, the application
runs on the user's machine.
HTML-client applications are best for users who have slower connections or
who are simply viewing information. HTML-client applications save valuable bandwidth
on users' machines.
Java-client applications are best for users who spend their time analyzing
past business performance or developing forecasts of future performance. Such
users need a highly interactive environment.
Descriptions of tutorials
There are three tutorials. The first tutorial guides you through the process
of creating OLAP objects, which can be used in either HTML-client or Java-client
applications. The remaining tutorials guide you through the process of creating
an HTML-client application and a Java-client application.
Guides you through the process of creating
OLAP objects and copying them to the BI Beans Catalog. Wizards facilitate
the development of OLAP objects, which are the building blocks of analytic
applications. The BI Beans Catalog allows analyses to be shared within a
user community.
Guides you through the process of creating
a BI Beans Java-client application, then shows you how to extend it. This
tutorial requires the OLAP objects that are created in the tutorial Developing
OLAP Objects. Using wizards, you generate a basic query, then an application
that enables end users to perform advanced queries against the database
and to present those results in crosstabs, tables, and graphs.
Guides you through the process of creating
a BI Beans JSP (HTML-client) application using JSP tags from the BI Beans
tag library. This tutorial requires the OLAP objects that are created in
the tutorial Developing OLAP Objects.
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