P.J. Jakovljevic - April 15, 2002
Event Summary Continued
In its quest to further embellish its E-Enterprise suite, Oracle will bolster a new portal, wireless capabilities, business intelligence (BI), workflow features, new Business Objects for Java, and improved support for industry standards and competitive offerings. Oracle plans to introduce Wireless Internet self-service applications for non-PC devices in an upcoming release of its 11i Suite that will enable customers to receive B2B exchange information, handle urgent approvals and receive alerts. It also plans to enable the use of industry standard tools such as Dreamweaver to code self-service pages and build common reusable components as it evolves the suite into an object-oriented programming platform. Oracle also plans to implement a common application architecture based on Java Server Pages (JSPs) as the successor to its own PL/SQL application architecture. One Business Component for Java (employee benefits) has already made its way into 11i suite.
Oracle also unveiled a new portal development kit at JavaOne show at the end of March that aims to blur the line between portlets and emerging Web services. The developer kit, which works with the portal framework built into Oracle's 9i Application Server, should allow users build portlets out of existing Java Server Pages (JSPs) or Web services. This convergence of Web services and portlet standards, should let Java developers build portlets based on the SOAP and XML architecture they are using to build Web services. The new architecture uses Java and J2EE for core business logic, and XML infrastructure to deliver the app to the end user-whether they are portlets, Web services, or wireless content. In addition to the portal product, Oracle is rolling a new "micro" edition of its J2EE developer tools focused on wireless applications. Oracle is also making a preview version of its Oracle 9i Application Server supporting J2EE 1.3 available to developers at the show.
This is Part 2 of a 4-part note on recent developments at Oracle.
Part 1 began the summary of recent events.
Part 3 begins a discussion of the Market Impact.
Part 4 makes User Recommendations.
Addressing the AS Market
Having faced stiff competition in the database market Oracle has also set its sights on the prosperous application server (AS) market. It was the only bright spot in the last quarter, as this part of business grew 35%. Although late to market, the recent 9iAS enhancements in terms of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) compliance, Web Services support, and integration to other Oracle products, should increase Oracle's opportunity, especially in its database shops. Also, Oracle's strategy of providing tools and support to members of its development network as free downloads, may promote its applications server sales.
As Oracle has long needed to embrace more closely the emerging Web services in order to close the gap behind IBM and Microsoft, and to use it as an advantage to further open its applications, the next release of Oracle9i Application Server will fully embrace such Web standards as XML, UDDI, and SOAP. It will also support ebXML and RosettaNet, the supply chain integration schema, but for multi-solutions communications, applications might require more multi-step processes. Therefore, Oracle will support interoperability between services developed with its technology and .NET services using Microsoft's framework, but only up to a point. Oracle will call out to .NET services and, vice versa, .NET can call into Oracle's, but Oracle will not support consumer-oriented services like Microsoft's promulgates HailStorm services and Passport authentication. Also, Oracle sanctions Java and does not support Microsoft's C#. However, Oracle does support WSDL for building applications and wrapping them in interfaces.
Oracle ASP
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http://www.technologyevaluation.com/research/articles/stalled-oracle-fumbling-for-a-jump-start-kit-part-2-event-summary-continued-16634/
Event Summary Continued
In its quest to further embellish its E-Enterprise suite, Oracle will bolster a new portal, wireless capabilities, business intelligence (BI), workflow features, new Business Objects for Java, and improved support for industry standards and competitive offerings. Oracle plans to introduce Wireless Internet self-service applications for non-PC devices in an upcoming release of its 11i Suite that will enable customers to receive B2B exchange information, handle urgent approvals and receive alerts. It also plans to enable the use of industry standard tools such as Dreamweaver to code self-service pages and build common reusable components as it evolves the suite into an object-oriented programming platform. Oracle also plans to implement a common application architecture based on Java Server Pages (JSPs) as the successor to its own PL/SQL application architecture. One Business Component for Java (employee benefits) has already made its way into 11i suite.
Oracle also unveiled a new portal development kit at JavaOne show at the end of March that aims to blur the line between portlets and emerging Web services. The developer kit, which works with the portal framework built into Oracle's 9i Application Server, should allow users build portlets out of existing Java Server Pages (JSPs) or Web services. This convergence of Web services and portlet standards, should let Java developers build portlets based on the SOAP and XML architecture they are using to build Web services. The new architecture uses Java and J2EE for core business logic, and XML infrastructure to deliver the app to the end user-whether they are portlets, Web services, or wireless content. In addition to the portal product, Oracle is rolling a new "micro" edition of its J2EE developer tools focused on wireless applications. Oracle is also making a preview version of its Oracle 9i Application Server supporting J2EE 1.3 available to developers at the show.
This is Part 2 of a 4-part note on recent developments at Oracle.
Part 1 began the summary of recent events.
Part 3 begins a discussion of the Market Impact.
Part 4 makes User Recommendations.
Addressing the AS Market
Having faced stiff competition in the database market Oracle has also set its sights on the prosperous application server (AS) market. It was the only bright spot in the last quarter, as this part of business grew 35%. Although late to market, the recent 9iAS enhancements in terms of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) compliance, Web Services support, and integration to other Oracle products, should increase Oracle's opportunity, especially in its database shops. Also, Oracle's strategy of providing tools and support to members of its development network as free downloads, may promote its applications server sales.
As Oracle has long needed to embrace more closely the emerging Web services in order to close the gap behind IBM and Microsoft, and to use it as an advantage to further open its applications, the next release of Oracle9i Application Server will fully embrace such Web standards as XML, UDDI, and SOAP. It will also support ebXML and RosettaNet, the supply chain integration schema, but for multi-solutions communications, applications might require more multi-step processes. Therefore, Oracle will support interoperability between services developed with its technology and .NET services using Microsoft's framework, but only up to a point. Oracle will call out to .NET services and, vice versa, .NET can call into Oracle's, but Oracle will not support consumer-oriented services like Microsoft's promulgates HailStorm services and Passport authentication. Also, Oracle sanctions Java and does not support Microsoft's C#. However, Oracle does support WSDL for building applications and wrapping them in interfaces.
Oracle ASP
source
http://www.technologyevaluation.com/research/articles/stalled-oracle-fumbling-for-a-jump-start-kit-part-2-event-summary-continued-16634/
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