DB203: Oracle and XML (2 days)

Course Overview

XML is not just about the Internet, it has many applications in the wider business arena-it is becoming the standard infrastructure underlying electronic business-to-business interaction and next-generation middleware systems-and is finding its way into many products and portions of the enterprise.

This course is an intensive two-day course designed to provide attendees with a background in using XML and, in particular, using XML within an Oracle environment. The course includes realistic hands-on exercises which illustrate and complement the up-to-date lecture content.

Audience

This course is designed for Oracle professionals, architects, developers and programmers of web sites and web applications, and website managers who need to know how XML will affect their work or who are interested in the exchange of data between disparate systems.

Course Objectives

In cutting through the misinformation and hype, and presenting a reality-based foundation of XML from both business and technical viewpoints, participants will:

• examine the concepts behind XML
• understand the standardization activity occurring in the XML community
• apply XML with particular reference to deploying XML with Oracle
• gain an understanding of how XML can be used to resolve many common data-exchange problems