Preface

Oracle HTML DB 2 Day Developer contains tutorials with step-by-step instructions that explain how to create a variety application components and complete applications using the Oracle HTML DB development environment.

This preface contains these topics:

• Audience

• Documentation Accessibility

• Structure

• Related Documents

• Conventions

Audience

Oracle HTML DB 2 Day Developer is intended for application developers who are building database-centric Web applications using Oracle HTML DB, release 1.6. To use this guide, you need to have a general understanding of Oracle HTML DB release 1.6, relational database concepts, and the operating system environment under which you are running Oracle HTML DB.

Documentation Accessibility

Our goal is to make Oracle products, services, and supporting documentation accessible, with good usability, to the disabled community. To that end, our documentation includes features that make information available to users of assistive technology. This documentation is available in HTML format, and contains markup to facilitate access by the disabled community. Standards will continue to evolve over time, and Oracle is actively engaged with other market-leading technology vendors to address technical obstacles so that our documentation can be accessible to all of our customers. For additional information, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program Web site at

http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/

Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation

JAWS, a Windows screen reader, may not always correctly read the code examples in this document. The conventions for writing code require that closing braces should appear on an otherwise empty line; however, JAWS may not always read a line of text that consists solely of a bracket or brace.

Accessibility of Links to External Web Sites in Documentation

This documentation may contain links to Web sites of other companies or organizations that Oracle does not own or control. Oracle neither evaluates nor makes any representations regarding the accessibility of these Web sites.

Structure

This document contains:

Chapter 1, "How to Create a Tabular Form"

Describes how to create a tabular form within an existing application and then how to change one of the updatable columns from a text field to a select list.

Chapter 2, "How to Create a Parameterized Report"

Illustrates how to create a report in which the results depend on the form input (also called a parameterized report).

Chapter 3, "How to Create a Drill Down Report"

Describes how to create a report on the DEMO_ORDERS table with links to drill down detail data in the DEMO_ORDER_ITEMS table.

Chapter 4, "How to Control Form Layout"

Describes the steps to create a data input form and explains how to change its layout by changing region and item attributes.

Chapter 5, "How to Work with Check Boxes"

Explains the different ways you can create check boxes and how to reference and process the values of checked boxes.

Chapter 6, "How to Implement a Web Service"

Describes how to call a Web service from within an Oracle HTML DB application.

Chapter 7, "How to Create a Stacked Bar Chart"

Explains how to create a stacked bar chart using existing data within the demonstration application, Sample Application.

Chapter 8, "How to Upload and Download Files in an Application"

Illustrates how to create a form and report with links for file upload and download, create and populate another table to store additional attributes about the documents, and create the mechanism to download a document in your custom table.

Chapter 9, "How to Incorporate JavaScript into an Application"

Describes some usage scenarios for JavaScript and includes details about how to implement them in your application.

Chapter 10, "How to Build and Deploy an Issue Tracking Application"

Offers in-depth, step-by-step instructions that explain how to create and deploy an issue tracking application. This application tracks the assignment, status, and progress of issues related to a project.

Related Documents

For more information, see these Oracle resources:

• Oracle HTML DB User's Guide

• Oracle Database Concepts

• Oracle Database Application Developer's Guide - Fundamentals

• Oracle Database Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Database SQL Reference

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Conventions

This section describes the conventions used in the text and code examples of this documentation set. It describes:

• Conventions in Text

• Conventions in Code Examples

• Conventions for Windows Operating Systems

Conventions in Text

We use various conventions in text to help you more quickly identify special terms. The following table describes those conventions and provides examples of their use.

Conventions in Code Examples

Code examples illustrate SQL, PL/SQL, SQL*Plus, or other command-line statements. They are displayed in a monospace (fixed-width) font and separated from normal text as shown in this example:

SELECT username FROM dba_users WHERE username = 'MIGRATE';

The following table describes typographic conventions used in code examples and provides examples of their use.

[ ]

DECIMAL (digits [ , precision ])

{ }

{ENABLE | DISABLE}

|

{ENABLE | DISABLE}
[COMPRESS | NOCOMPRESS]

...

CREATE TABLE ... AS subquery;

SELECT col1, col2, ... , coln FROM employees;

acctbal NUMBER(11,2);
acct    CONSTANT NUMBER(4) := 3;

Italics

CONNECT SYSTEM/system_password
DB_NAME = database_name

UPPERCASE

SELECT last_name, employee_id FROM employees;
SELECT * FROM USER_TABLES;
DROP TABLE hr.employees;

lowercase

SELECT last_name, employee_id FROM employees;
sqlplus hr/hr
CREATE USER mjones IDENTIFIED BY ty3MU9;

Conventions for Windows Operating Systems

The following table describes conventions for Windows operating systems and provides examples of their use.

C:\oracle\oradata>

C:\> exp HR/HR TABLES=emp QUERY=\"WHERE job='REP'\"

HOME_NAME

C:\> net start OracleHOME_NAMETNSListener