4.3. What Else?
Armed with some knowledge of PL/SQL and HTML, you are ready to start building your own web-based applications. I hope that I have demystified some of the obstacles you may confront in your own projects and provided a solid foundation on which to expand your knowledge.
One area that I have not addressed at all is the testing of web-based PL/SQL applications. Although it may be possible to perform quite a bit of testing using a pure PL/SQL approach (see, for example, the discussion of Oracle's built-in package UTL_HTTP in Chapter 8), other freely available tools are probably a better fit. I won't go into the subject here, but I've recorded some of my thoughts on the subject, including some test scripts for the add_book form, at http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnoracle.
This chapter has considered only a small part of the library application: populating (by hand) the catalog with a new book. I ignored fundamental tasks such as querying or modifying the catalog, or fetching catalog information from other sources. In the chapters ahead, I'll present solutions to some of these additional challenges.
Get Learning Oracle PL/SQL now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
