this book is ok.
just like all other oracle books, they just "talk too much"..
to much junk and too little meat...
almost feel like they are putting in too much filler to make it to a
500-600 page book....
if you get the class notes from oracle's classes...it's much more compact
and to the point.
Too bad there is not much other jdeveloper book out there.

Being a traditional pl/sql developer, I was drawn to the title of the book immediately. I know I need to eventually buckle down and learn Java, but what better way than by drawing parallels to pl/sql and Forms.

I like the hands-on examples that has you build a fairly complete application from scratch. I say fairly complete because its only a 500 page book and it allows the reader to go out and research ways to improve it.

One of my favorite parts of the book is a summary section that shows up after a large chunk of instructions called "What did you just do?" This sums up what the reader just performed - explaining in layman's terms what you actually just did.

Although I'm sure you can get similar tutorials on OTN somewhere, having a book to flip back through is always nice.

exellent Book

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Great

This is an excelent book for begining web development, it explains you step by step how things work and "glue" together. The only reason for me to give it 4 stars is that, in the book it explains how to build part of an application (tuhra) and it tells you to look for the rest (of the app.) on the web site..... I looked for it but it is nowhere to be found... (they only have the parts of the app. that you develope while doing the books excercises).

This book served well our need to train Oracle Forms developers in JDeveloper/ADF. The first part is a good technological review, the second a hands-on to build an application that not only tells what to do and how to do it, but explains it fully. It was useful even after attending formal Oracle training.

As the authors note, this is written for people who know PL/SQL inside and out but don't have a clue about java and JDeveloper - my exact position. The first read through gave me a clearer picture, and the subsequent reads are finally lifting the fog.

This is a pretty good book to start using Jdeveloper, it covers a lot of developing concepts in Jdeveloper that have its match in Oracle Forms and it also covers a good explanation on how to use the framework, So far it's a book for beginners in Jdeveloper and that's why I just gave it four stars.

If you are an Oracle Forms Developer and you want to start using Jdeveloper this is the book, but also you can find lots of white papers and information at the Jdeveloper homepage that might be very useful to begin walk in Jdeveloper and J2EE applications.

The thing is we have to walk a lot to develop greats enterprise application using Jdeveloper and like the authors said in the book you have to be very careful in order to choose technology to develop a project because Oracle Forms has an excellent background and there's nothing faster than the client-server technology to capture information.