This book is a must-read for database developers audience (DBAs, database application developers, data architects), Java developers (JDBC, SQLJ, J2EE, and OR Mapping frameworks), and to the Services Web assemblers appear. * Describes pragmatic solutions, advanced database applications, and they provide a wealth of sample code * Address programming model that runs in the database and programming model that runs in the middle-tier or client-tier to the database. * Discussing the language for stored procedures: when to use proprietary languages such as PL / SQL and when to use standard languages such as Java, also run non-Java scripting languages in the database * Describes the Java runtime in the Oracle database 10g (ie, OracleJVM), architecture, memory management, security management, threading, execution Java Native Compiler (ie, NCOMP), how to make Java known to SQL and PL / SQL, data types mapping, how call-out to external Web components, EJB components, ERP frameworks, and external databases. * Describes JDBC programming and JDBC Oracle 10g new features, advanced connection services (pooling, failover, load-balancing, and fast database event notification mechanism) for the database cluster (RAC) in Grid environment. * Describes SQLJ SQLJ programming and Oracle 10g new features, in contrast to JDBC * Describes the latest Database Web services features, Web services concepts and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) for DBA, the database as a provider of Web services and databases as a Web service consumer. * Coverage of the JPublisher 10g Compact, versatile complement to JDBC, SQLJ and Database Web Services.