Deploying Oracle Application Server 10g on Dell PowerEdge Servers with Linux
Over the past ten years, one of the most significant trends in corporate IT has been the emergence of the Application Platform Suite (APS). An Application Platform Suite provides the infrastructure for corporations to develop and deploy their own applications, as well as deploying third-party applications. The main enabling technology for Application Platform Suites is Java™ 2 Enterprise Edition software. J2EE provides not only powerful software tools for Enterprise development, but also provides comprehensive standards to help ensure inter-operability of all deployed applications.
While object-oriented data models are at the heart of J2EE implementations, it is possible to map an object-oriented model to a traditional relational model. This is more than an academic exercise, since the bulk of corporate data is currently stored in relational databases. This is not likely to change soon, since relational databases provide the performance, security, and high availability characteristics that corporations demand for storing persistent data. Fortunately, the combination of J2EE-enabled Application Platform Suites and persistent relational database stores has proven to be remarkably flexible and robust, and is now considered the standard platform for application development and deployment.
Therefore, it should be no surprise that one of the leading APS is offered by the leading database vendor, Oracle ® Corporation. Oracle Application Server (OracleAS) 10g Enterprise Edition offers the advantage of tight integration with Oracle Database 10g. Moreover, Oracle Application Server 10g Enterprise Edition provides a comprehensive solution for developing, integrating, and deploying a corporation’s applications, portals, and Web sites. The robust architecture of Oracle Application Server Enterprise Edition is designed to provide outstanding J2EE performance and to support a broad spectrum of applications. Major categories of Oracle Application Server applications include Business Intelligence, portal applications, wireless applications, identity management, and business integration tools. Not only does Oracle Application Server provide a platform for developing new categories of applications, it also offers a consolidated framework for deploying legacy Oracle applications, such as Forms and Reports. In addition, Oracle Application Server middleware forms the core of Oracle’s Fusion strategy for integrating diverse Enterprise applications.
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