Before getting started, we have to install the JDeveloper 10.1.3 IDE and the MySQL 5.0 database. Download JDeveloper from: http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/jdev/index.html. Download the MySQL Connector/J 5.1, the MySQL JDBC driver that supports JDBC 4.0 specification. To install JDeveloper extract the JDeveloper ZIP file to a directory. Log in to the MySQL database and set the database to test. Create a database table, Catalog, which we will use in a web application. The SQL script to create the database table is listed below:

CREATE TABLE Catalog(CatalogId VARCHAR(25)
PRIMARY KEY, Journal VARCHAR(25), Publisher VARCHAR(25),
Edition VARCHAR(25), Title Varchar(45), Author Varchar(25));
INSERT INTO Catalog VALUES('catalog1', 'Oracle Magazine',
'Oracle Publishing', 'Nov-Dec 2004', 'Database Resource Manager', 'Kimberly Floss');
INSERT INTO Catalog VALUES('catalog2', 'Oracle Magazine', 'Oracle Publishing', 'Nov-Dec 2004', 'From ADF UIX to JSF', 'Jonas...