Starting with Fyracle

Some friend wants to start with PLSQL and fyracle and i see that some
guides are available

http://www.janus-software.com/fyracle_docs.html
http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Oracle/Database-Interaction-with-PLSQL-part1/

And He will program it with jdbc
Runtime is enough to start with ?
http://www.janus-software.com/runtime_dl.html

I asked this on this list because other developers could want to try it
on a low end machine , instead of oracle

::firebird::oracle::.