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Executive Overview

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.

Of course, deploying Enterprise class applications with Oracle Application Server

software requires Enterprise class hardware. Dell PowerEdge Servers and Dell/EMC

Enterprise Storage provide a robust, scalable platform for deploying Oracle Application

Server 10g applications. In addition, Dell Hardware and Software solutions lead the

market in providing value for the Enterprise Infrastructure, on a cost effective basis. Dell

engineering works directly with Oracle Corporation to provide tested and validated

solutions. This benefits customers by providing a “risk-free” installation experience.

One of the more important benefits that this whitepaper provides is in discussing the

architectural options for Oracle Application Server 10g. Oracle Application Server can

be deployed in a variety of different topologies allowing individual components to be

distributed across multiple servers, or to be duplicated in a clustered configuration. This

provides benefits both in terms of application performance and High Availability. Due to

this flexibility, Administrators are faced with a large number of architectural and

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