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Oracle Application Server

Unmatched Scalability, Availability, Manageability, and Security Oracle Application Server, a key component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, offers the industry's most comprehensive solution for developing, integrating, and deploying your enterprise's applications, portals, and Web services. Based on a powerful and scalable J2EE server, Oracle Application Server provides industry-leading application deployment, business integration, and best-of-breed portal software. Oracle Application Server is the only platform designed for grid computing as well as full lifecycle support for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Oracle Application Server editions:

• Enterprise Edition
• Standard Edition
• Standard Edition One
• Java Edition

ENTERPRISE EDITION

A Comprehensive application platform suite



Oracle Application Server 10g Enterprise Edition is an application platform suite (APS) that offers a comprehensive solution for developing, integrating, and deploying all of your enterprise's applications, portals, and Web sites. Enterprise Edition combines robust business integration, world-record holding J2EE performance, and capabilities for enterprise portal, real-time business activity monitoring, business intelligence, identity management, and wireless deployment.

Benefits

• Best-in-class functionality — Revenue leader in the APS market according to Gartner
  
• Lower management cost — Deploy solutions engineered to work together seamlessly
  
• Adaptable to market conditions — Designed for flexible grid computing and SOA
  
• High availability — Pool servers in a highly available and scalable grid architecture
  

STANDARD EDITION

Cost-effectively deploy high-performance Web applications



Oracle Application Server 10g Standard Edition, featuring Oracle Portal, is designed to unify access to all your information assets into one common enterprise portal and allow users to share content enterprise-wide. With industry-leading security and a J2EE engine holding the industry record for best price/performance, Oracle Application Server has garnered the fastest growing market share two years running, according to IDC.

Benefits

• Share accurate information — Enables customers, employees, partners and suppliers to share accurate and up-to-date information
  
• Share business processes — Shares business processes with key stakeholders, resulting in competitive advantages
  
• Add and configure content — Allows both programmers and end users to create, configure and add content to portal pages
  
• Manage your enterprise grid — Allows the pooling of servers in a highly available and scalable grid
  
• Gain flexibility with SOA — Adapts your existing applications to a service-oriented architecture

STANDARD EDITION ONE

Optimized for smaller organizations

Oracle Application Server 10g Standard Edition One

Like all small-to-midsize businesses, your company faces limitations—in time, money and available resources—that stand in the way of growth. Oracle Application Server 10g Standard Edition One is a proven, secure, comprehensive, standards-based, and affordable middleware solution that enables you to share information instantly and securely with customers, employees and partners; develop and deploy Web sites; and develop Web-based applications.

Features

• Intuitive Web-based management interface
  
• Visual development environment for Web-services based applications
  
• One-click installation on Windows and Linux operating systems
  
• A starting price of only $149 per user

Benefits

• Attract new customers by hosting your own company Web site and retain existing customers with a secure customer portal
  
• Improve employee productivity with an out-of-the-box employee portal that lets you store, find, share, and access business information from anywhere (View Demo)
  
• Strengthen partner relationships by creating an extranet/portal for improved communications and automated business workflows
  
• Manage and protect your business data with easy to use security features that shield your data from unauthorized access and prevent accidental loss (View Demo)
  

JAVA EDITION

Deploy and manage Java applications



Oracle Application Server 10g Java Edition is a highly scalable, available, manageable, and secure J2EE application server that includes all you need to develop and deploy enterprise Java applications at a fraction of the cost of BEA or IBM.

Features

• Certified J2EE 1.4 Container with partial Java EE 5 support (e.g. EJB 3.0 / JPA 1.0)
  
• Rich set of tools and runtimes to simplify development of Java and SOA applications
  
• Oracle JDeveloper, a Java IDE that eWeek called "second to none"
  
• Oracle Application Developer Framework (ADF), a platform-agnostic J2EE productivity framework
  
• Oracle TopLink, a powerful persistence architecture for rapid development and deployment of enterprise applications that interact with relational databases

Benefits

• Power for less—Ranked first in industry-standard performance and price/performance benchmarks
  
• Market leadership—More than 15,000 satisfied customers for Oracle Application Server 10g
  
• Cost savings—Designed to manage enterprise grids, which allow you to pool low-cost servers
  
• Scalability and high availability—Designed for enterprise grid computing
  Business flexibility—The only application server designed to develop and manage SOA on an enterprise grid