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Introduction

Oracle8i has the application development features needed to build a new generation of sophisticated applications at low cost. Chief among those features are stored procedures, which open the Oracle RDBMS to all Java programmers. With stored procedures, you can implement business logic at the server level, thereby improving application performance, scalability, and security.

Major Topics

• Java in the RDBMS: A Robust Combination

• Stored Procedures and Run-Time Contexts

• Advantages of Stored Procedures

• The Aurora JVM and Its Components

• Developing Stored Procedures: An Overview

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