For Windows and UNIX/Linux Users

It is not a requirement that you be a Windows user to accomplish the tasks in this book. All of the code is in PL/SQL and Java, and will run cross-platform. However, I've had to be a bit focused in the development of this material. All of the descriptions of filesystem directories, command prompt, environment settings, services, scripts, and processes are written using Microsoft Windows as the model.

To avoid the appearance of a strong Windows bias, let me remind you that we are talking about Java and Oracle here. I've been using UNIX for longer than Windows has been around. I didn't start using Windows until Windows 3.1, when the trumpet winsock tcp/ip stack became available. I started out in UNIX with SunOS ...

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