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Oracle Application Server

The PSP Hello World

PSP's (PLSQL Pages) provide a powerful and easy method for extracting Oracle database data and serving it up via a web page.

You'll need to create a DAD (Database Access Descriptor) to your database (the connection from mod_plsql to the database) within which you're storing your PLSQL Pages:

Login to Enterprise Manager (http://your.server.name:1810) as ias_admin. Navigate to your HTTP Service (Farm > App Server > HTTP Server > PL/SQL Properties (at the bottom of the screen)) -- scroll down to DAD Status and click Create -- select general as connection type, enter connection string as usual and give your DAD a name (you'll need this as DADname in the URL below).

Then create a procedure on the database that your DAD points to, for example:

CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE "HELLOWORLDPROC" AS
BEGIN NULL;
htp.prn('
     <HTML>
     <HEAD><TITLE>HELLO WORLD</TITLE></HEAD>
     <BODY>
     <br><br>
     <B>
     There are currently
');

for counter in (SELECT COUNT(*) rowsintable FROM DUAL) loop
     htp.prn(' ');
     htp.prn( counter.rowsintable );
     htp.prn(' ');
end loop;

htp.prn(' rows in TABLE1
     </BODY>
     </HTML>
');
 END;
/

Once this has been created you can access it using the following URL syntax:

http://your.server.name:7778/DADname/HELLOWORLDPROC

This demonstrates several things:

Use of a DAD to join browser to database.
htp.prn to generate HTML to your browser.
Outputing database information to the browser via a DAD.




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