OLE2 and DDE package books

Hi All,
I need to fully understand OLE2 and DDE package. Pressing F1 provides very limited help for me. Anyone here have or know some links of any reading materials(e-books, documentation)?
Please share... I'm drowned with my tasks here.
Thanks!

DDE is seriously outdated and should only be considered as a last resort. As for OLE2, concern yourself not with learning the OLE2 package, but instead, with understanding OLE automation. The OLE2 package is just a wrapper that makes it possible to manipulate OLE automation servers from PL/SQL. Once you understand OLE, using OLE2 should come easily.
I learned OLE automation as a Visual Basic developer, before ever working with Oracle, and found it to be fairly straightforward. The easiest and cheapest way to learn OLE automation is by using Microsoft's Visual Basic for Applications IDE -- an Office component. Search this forum using keywords VBA and Tutorial, and you will find information that should hopefully prove helpful.
As for Mark's assertion that XML provides a simpler solution, there are important differences between the XML and OLE approaches. The XML approach involves simply creating a document, whereas the OLE approach involves instructing the OLE server application to create a document. XML might be perfect, for example, if you wish to create Word documents on a *NIX server. On the other hand, when your environment permits it, OLE makes it possible to leverage application functionality, like Excel's data analysis functions.
Eric Adamson
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Please share
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