Preface

This guide gets you started building Enterprise JavaBeans and CORBA applications for Oracle8i. It includes many code examples to help you develop your application.

Who Should Read This Guide?

Anyone developing server-side Enterprise JavaBeans or CORBA applications for Oracle8i will benefit from reading this guide. Written especially for programmers, it will also be of value to architects, systems analysts, project managers, and others interested in network-centric database applications. To use this guide effectively, you must have a working knowledge of Java and Oracle8i. If you are developing CORBA applications, this guide assumes that you have some familiarity with CORBA. If you are developing EJB applications, reading the EJB 1.0 specification to supplement this Guide will be of great help. See Suggested Reading .

How This Guide Is Organized

This guide consists of six chapters and four appendices:

Chapter 1, "Overview", presents a brief overview of the EJB and CORBA development models from an Oracle8i perspective.

Chapter 2, "Enterprise JavaBeans", discusses EJB development for the Oracle8i server. Although not a tutorial on EJBs, this chapter discusses some of the basic EJB concepts covered in the Sun Microsystems specification.

Chapter 3, "Developing CORBA Applications", describes techniques for developing CORBA server objects that run in the Oracle8i data server.

Chapter 4, "Connections and Security", covers more advanced information than that in Chapters 2 and 3, including session management and alternative authentication procedures.

Chapter 5, "Transaction Handling", documents the transaction interfaces that you can use when developing both EJB and CORBA applications.

Chapter 6, "Tools", documents the command-line tools that you need to develop your CORBA or EJB application.

Appendix A, "Example Code: CORBA", includes Java and IDL source code for the examples.

Appendix B, "Example Code: EJB", contains Java source code for the EJB examples.

Appendix C, "Comparing the Oracle8i JServer and VisiBroker^TM VBJ ORBs", discusses some of the fundamental differences between developing CORBA applications for VisiBroker and the Oracle8i JServer.

Appendix D, "Abbreviations and Acronyms", provides a handy list of acronyms.

Notational Conventions

This guide follows these conventions:

Italic

Italic font denotes terms being defined for the first time, words being emphasized, error messages, and book titles.

Courier

Courier font denotes Java program names, file names, path names, and Internet addresses.

Java code examples follow these conventions:

{ }

Braces enclose a block of statements.

//

A double slash begins a single-line comment, which extends to the end of a line.

/* */

A slash-asterisk and an asterisk-slash delimit a multi-line comment, which can span multiple lines.

...

An ellipsis shows that statements or clauses irrelevant to the discussion were left out.

lower case

Lower case is used for keywords and for one-word names of variables, methods, and packages.

UPPER CASE

Upper case is used for names of constants (static final variables) and for names of supplied classes that map to built-in SQL datatypes.

Mixed Case

Mixed case is used for names of classes and interfaces and for multi-word names of variables, methods, and packages. The names of classes and interfaces begin with an upper-case letter. In all multi-word names, the second and succeeding words begin with an upper-case letter.

Related Publications

Occasionally, this guide refers you to the following Oracle publications for more information:

Oracle8i Application Developer's Guide - Fundamentals

Oracle8i Java Developer's Guide

Oracle8i JDBC Developer's Guide and Reference

Oracle8i SQL Reference

Oracle8i SQLJ Developer's Guide and Reference

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Italic	Italic font denotes terms being defined for the first time, words being emphasized, error messages, and book titles.
`Courier`	Courier font denotes Java program names, file names, path names, and Internet addresses.

{ }	Braces enclose a block of statements.
//	A double slash begins a single-line comment, which extends to the end of a line.
*/ /*	A slash-asterisk and an asterisk-slash delimit a multi-line comment, which can span multiple lines.
...	An ellipsis shows that statements or clauses irrelevant to the discussion were left out.
lower case	Lower case is used for keywords and for one-word names of variables, methods, and packages.
UPPER CASE	Upper case is used for names of constants (static final variables) and for names of supplied classes that map to built-in SQL datatypes.
Mixed Case	Mixed case is used for names of classes and interfaces and for multi-word names of variables, methods, and packages. The names of classes and interfaces begin with an upper-case letter. In all multi-word names, the second and succeeding words begin with an upper-case letter.