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Oracle Application Server:

Key Components and Features

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 Objectives

After completing this lesson, you should be able to do

the following:
Describe the solution areas addressed by Oracle
Application Server (OracleAS)
Describe some key terminologies used in the
context of Oracle Application Server
Describe the key components of Oracle
Application Server

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 Oracle Application Server: Overview

Management &
security
HTTP Server,
J2EE, &
Web services

Portal

Wireless

Caching
Business
intelligence
Integration

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 OracleAS Middle-Tier Components and
Solutions
J2EE and Web Services Portal
Oracle HTTP Server OracleAS Portal
OracleAS Containers for J2EE OracleAS Portal Developer Kit
OracleAS TopLink
Oracle Business Components for Java Wireless
OracleAS Web Services
Oracle XML Developer Kit OracleAS Wireless
Oracle PL/SQL
OracleAS MapViewer Caching

Business Intelligence OracleAS Web Cache

OracleAS Reports Services

Integration
OracleAS Forms Services
OracleAS Discoverer OracleAS InterConnect
OracleAS Personalization OracleAS ProcessConnect

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 Oracle Application Server Terminology

OracleAS The set of executables and configuration files that are created
Installation at the time of OracleAS installation
OracleAS An operational OracleAS installation that runs some of the
Instance OracleAS components such as OHS, OC4J, etc.
OracleAS A combination of Metadata Repository, directory server, and
Infrastructure Single Sign-On server
Metadata A preseeded Oracle database that contains metadata required
Repository by Oracle Application Server instances
Directory Defines a hierarchical view of an organizations employees,
Server units, and other resources
OracleAS Farm A collection of OracleAS instances sharing the same
configuration repository. The repository can be OracleAS
Metadata Repository or a file-based repository.
OracleAS A collection of OracleAS Instances in the same Farm, with
Cluster identical application deployments and functioning as a single
unit.

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 Oracle HTTP Server

Information
source

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 OracleAS Containers for J2EE

HTTP server
OC4J
mod_oc4j

J2EE virtual machine

Web container EJB container

JSP Servlet EJB

Java
JMS JAAS JTA Mail
JAXP JDBC

JNDI JAF Connectors Database

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 OracleAS Web Services

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 OracleAS Enterprise Portal

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 Wireless-Enabled Applications

Using OracleAS Wireless, you can:

Develop or extend applications to be location-
based, personalized, or voice-enabled and deploy
to all devices
Provide personalization from PCs or wireless
devices
Use advanced messaging techniques such as
voice messaging, Short Message Service (SMS), or
e-mail

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 OracleAS Reports Services

With OracleAS Reports Services, you can:

Build and publish reports from most sources, with
unlimited data formatting
Access reports from any browser
Generate a report on demand, or on a schedule
Generate reports in HTML, PDF, or XML

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 OracleAS Discoverer

Using OracleAS Discoverer, you can enable your

users to get immediate access to information from
data marts, data warehouses, and online
transaction processing (OLTP) systems.
OracleAS Discoverer is available in two types of
clients:
Discoverer Plus
Discoverer Viewer

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 OracleAS Web Cache

OracleAS Web Cache functions as a front end for the

application servers.
Application
Server

Web Cache

Client

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 Enhancing Performance with Caching

OracleAS Web Cache enables you to:

Accelerate the delivery of static and dynamic
content
Reduce your hardware and administration costs
You can cluster multiple Web cache instances to
provide
Ease of configuration and management
Avoid a single point of failure

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 Oracle Application Server Management

Oracle Application Server provides the following

management tools ready to use:
Enterprise Manager - Application Server Control
The preferred browser-based interface, which can
be used from a remote location
Distributed Configuration Management (DCM)
Manages the configuration and maintains the
configuration repository
dcmctl is the command-line interface
Oracle Process Management and Notification
Server (OPMN)
Monitors Oracle Application Server processes, and
restarts them when needed
opmnctl is the command-line interface

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 OracleAS Infrastructure

Identity management components

Oracle Delegated Oracle
Single
Internet administration Certificate
Sign-On
Directory service Authority

Directory
integration

Product Identity Configuration

management management

Metadata repositories

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 Oracle Internet Directory and Security

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 Securing the Web Infrastructure

Secure sockets layer (SSL) encryption can be used

to protect the Web site.
Oracle Application Server provides a
comprehensive suite of security services,
including OracleAS Single Sign-On.
The Single Sign-On server validates user
credentials against Oracle Internet Directory, which
is an LDAP directory service.

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 Summary

In this lesson, you should have learned to do the

following:
Describe the solution areas addressed by Oracle
Application Server
Describe the key components of Oracle
Application Server and their features

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