Przemek Piotrowski has been following Oracle 10g Express Edition (Oracle XE) development since its early beta stages back in 2005 and can easily distinguish new features of this first database from Oracle, free to develop, deploy and distribute. Oracle XE's small footprint doesn't stop him from taking advantage of many of its advanced features and plugging them into existing Web architectures.
This article covers the process of building a real working AJAX application
on top of Oracle's free database software. The demonstration takes advantage
of features integrated directly into Oracle Database 10g Express Edition
(Oracle XE), the Embedded PL/SQL Gateway and Oracle XML DB, which let you
serve XML content derived from SQL queries directly over HTTP protocol.
You've probably run up against one of the numerous frameworks for AJAX that
were probably Java- or .NET-based. Although they fit large-scale environments
perfectly, smaller projects may not require such overwhelming resources as a
J2EE stack. Besides, understanding the technology behind XMLHttpRequest may
help you use asynchronous requests better under just about any Web
development environment.
The conce... (more)
Przemek Piotrowski has been following Oracle 10g Express Edition (Oracle XE) development since its early beta stages back in 2005 and can easily distinguish new features of this first database from Oracle, free to develop, deploy and distribute. Oracle XE's small footprint doesn't stop him from taking advantage of many of its advanced features and plugging them into existing Web architectures.
Keith Bergelt
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Aditya Banerjee
John Karamitsos
Kaj van de Loo
Bob Little
Alois Reitbauer
Chris Schin
Richard Gordon
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