Who Uses the Oracle Web Agent

• A programmer who wants to develop Web applications that interact with Oracle7. The Oracle Web Agent enables the programmer to create PL/SQL procedures that perform database operations and format the results into HTML documents. These documents then get returned to the Web client.

Therefore, the programmer needs to know the following:

• the hypertext functions and hypertext procedures that can be used to generate an HTML-formatted document. These are described, "The WebServer Developer's Toolkit."

• the basics of the PL/SQL procedural language. These are contained, "Introduction to the Oracle7 Server and to PL/SQL".

In addition, the following is useful for the programmer:

• which Common Gateway Interface environment variables are available to the PL/SQL application, and how to access them (This is covered in this chapter.).

• (This is covered in this chapter.)

• how the Web Agent handles parameters (covered in this chapter.)

• how to use the OWA_UTIL PL/SQL Utility Package (covered, "The WebServer Developer's Toolkit".

• An administrator who wants to install or set up the Oracle Web Agent, and use the Administration Utility to maintain the Web Agent.

The administrator needs to know the following:

• how to create, modify, and delete Web Agent services

• where to install the Developer's Toolkit PL/SQL packages provided by the Web Agent

The following information is useful for the administrator:

• how the Oracle Web Agent works (covered in this chapter.)

• how the Web Agent handles errors (covered in this chapter.)