This graphic compares a typical Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2 (10.1.2) farm and a typical Oracle Portal, Forms, Reports, and Discoverer 11g environment.
The 10g Release 2 (10.1.2) farm consists of:
Two application server instances. One contains Oracle HTTP Server, Oracle Portal, and an OC4J instance named OC4J_Portal. The second contains Oracle HTTP Server, Oracle BI Discoverer, and OC4J instance called OC4J_Disco.
A database containing the Metadata Repository, which in turn contains the schemas for Oracle Portal and Oracle BI Discoverer.
An Identity Management environment that shares the same metadata repository.
The Oracle Portal, Forms, Reports, and Discoverer 11g environment consists of:
A single Oracle WebLogic Server domain that contains three servers: an administration server with the Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console and Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control, one managed server with Oracle Portal and Oracle HTTP Server, and one managed server with Oracle BI Discoverer and Oracle HTTP Server.
A database that contains the Oracle Portal, Forms, Reports, and Discoverer 11g schemas.
An Identity Management environment that shares the same metadata repository.