Rating:  - Useful book
The title suggests this book is an Introduction to web applications. As an Oracle contractor who knew little about the web, I found it very helpful in that it explained clearly and concisely some of the approaches that the Oracle Corp is taking to web development. For me, it was useful to have a summary of HTML and XML. Well worth a read.
Rating: - WEBDB Well written for beginners
I have been an Oracle DBA for several years, and I still find this book to be of great help in developing Web applications.
I have developed about three systems that in production now, and could have spent time searching users guide for information on WEBDB functionalities, but the book helped me find what I was looking for fast.
I am starting on site building and I believe that I will get all the help I need from the book.
Every Webdb developer should have this book as a reference.
Rating: - Good book for beginners
Reviewer Jay missed the point. The book is clearly for beginners and does a good job of informing them. In this field there are varying levels of expertise so the book buyer should keep that in mind when purchasing a book. I for one found the book to be informative and worthwhile for my particular level of expertise
Rating:  - Too simple. Read the free oracle online manuals instead.
You could get more from the Oracle OAS and WEBDB manual. This book is thin(232 pages), however, it spends 50 pages introducing what is HTML and PL/SQL. The WebDB introduction is too simple and doesn't have any examples. System admin staff in the OAS section is OK for the very begineers, but isn't as resourceful as the OAS online manual, besides the examples are done against OAS 3.0 not the current version 4.0.8. The PL/SQL toolkit section is OK. but I would prefer to read the OAS web developer online manual. Well not worth the money, I am going to return this book.
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