Preface

This guide describes how to use Oracle Application Server 10g Multimedia Tag Library for JSP.

Audience

This guide is for experienced application developers who want to develop JSP-based multimedia Web applications of a low to medium level of complexity. It is also for application developers who want to rapidly create multimedia application prototypes as well as for authors of JavaServer Pages who have some experience writing Java applications.

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Organization

This guide contains the following chapters and appendixes:

Chapter 1, " Introduction to Multimedia Tag Library "

Contains an overview of media retrieval and upload concepts.

Chapter 2, " Program Examples Using Multimedia JSP Tags"

Describes a sample program (based on the Oracle interMedia photograph album sample application).

Chapter 3, " Media Retrieval Reference Information"

Contains reference information on the media retrieval tags.

Chapter 4, " Media Upload Reference Information"

Contains reference information on the media upload tags.

Appendix A, " Installation and Configuration Information"

Describes how to install and configure Oracle Application Server 10g Multimedia Tag Library for JSP.

Appendix B, " Error Messages"

Contains information on possible errors that can be raised by Oracle Application Server 10g Multimedia Tag Library for JSP.

Related Documentation

This guide is not intended as a standalone document. It is a supplement to Oracle interMedia Reference, Oracle interMedia User’s Guide, and Oracle interMedia Java Classes Reference. To successfully perform operations on Oracle interMedia ("interMedia") objects using the Java interface, you also need the following guides:

• Oracle9i JDBC Developer’s Guide and Reference

• Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE User's Guide

• Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE Support for JavaServer Pages Developer's Guide

• Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE JSP Tag Libraries and Utilities Reference

• PL/SQL User’s Guide and Reference

For more information about using interMedia in a development environment, see the following documents in the Oracle documentation set:

• Oracle9i Application Developer’s Guide - Fundamentals

• Oracle9i Database Concepts

For information added after the release of this guide, refer to the online release notes for the Oracle Application Server section of the OTN Web site at

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For more information on Java, see the API documentation provided by Sun Microsystems at

http://java.sun.com/docs

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Conventions

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