Oracle Power Objects Developer's Guide

Wondering how to maximize the incredible capabilities provided by Oracle Power Objects, the new graphic development environment for client/server operations? The Oracle Power Objects Developer's Guide shows you how to fully utilize this dynamic toolset to create object-oriented client/server applications. Client/server experts Richard Finkelstein, Rick Greenwald, and Kasu Sista offer practical, in-depth information on planning, designing, and building Oracle Power Objects applications from scratch. They cover topics that are often neglected elsewhere, including: using the Oracle Basic programming language, designing effective client/server applications, interfacing with Oracle and other relational database management systems (RDBMS), maximizing performance, enhancing productivity with libraries and object classes, understanding visual object programming with Oracle Power Objects, creating reports, designing the user interface, and managing transactions. And as a bonus, the CD-ROM included with the book contains a 90-day trial version of Oracle Power Objects and Oracle Workgroup/2000, allowing you to practice what you learn right away.

This is a helpful guide to the tools, objects and development environment of Oracle's object-oriented front-end client/server application builder. It reviews building concepts and builds an application form with look, control and query capability. Then the book introduces Oracle Basic, and begins to extend the application form with fields and values. The author builds a sorting screen that allows users to sort retrieved data, then generalizes the sort order form with classes and stores it in a library. This text guides you through object classes and relates them to subclasses. It also classifies and implements business rules and illustrates how your applications interact with server databases. The book concludes with Power Object extensions to DLL libraries, OLE 2.0, and adds OCX functionality. Source code is available from the Oracle Web site. The CD-ROM contains a trial version of Oracle Power Objects and Oracle Workgroup/2000.