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Developing Web Applications with PL/SQL  If you think that only
new languages such as Java and JavaScript can do network
operations and produce dynamic Web content, think again. PL/SQL
has a number of features that you can use to Web-enable your
database and make your back-office data interactive and
accessible to intranet users or your customers.  This chapter
discusses the following topics:  PL/SQL Web Applications  Web
applications written in PL/SQL are typically sets of stored
procedures that interact with Web browsers through the HTTP
protocol. A set of interlinked dynamic HTML pages forms the user
interface of a web application.  When a Web browser user visits
a Web page, follows a hypertext link, or pr