Chapter 13, Oracle Distributed Databases and Distributed Data, briefly summarizes
the Oracle facilities used in distributed processing including two-phase commits and
Streams Advanced Queuing and replication.
Chapter 14, Oracle Extended Datatypes, describes Oracle??™s object-oriented features,
Java??™s?„? role, web services support, multimedia extensions to the Oracle datatypes,
content management using the database, spatial capabilities, and the extensibility
framework.
Chapter 15, Beyond the Oracle Database, describes Oracle Application Express,
deploying to the Web using the Oracle Application Server and Fusion Middleware,
and the overall use of Oracle in a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) environment.
Appendix A, What??™s New in This Book for Oracle Database 11g, lists the Oracle
Database 11g changes described in this book.
Appendix B, Additional Resources, lists a variety of additional resources??”both
online and offline??”so you can do more detailed reading.
Conventions Used in This Book
The following typographical conventions are used in this book:
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