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Components

This appendix describes the various Oracle9iAS components.

See Also: Oracle9i Application Server Overview Guide in the Oracle9i Application Server Documentation Library for detailed information about each component.

Oracle9iAS Web Cache

Oracle9iAS Web Cache is a server accelerator caching service that improves the performance, scalability, and availability of frequently used e-business Web sites that run on Oracle9iAS and Oracle database. By storing frequently accessed URLs in virtual memory, Oracle9iAS Web Cache eliminates the need to repeatedly process requests for those URLs on the Web server, and it caches both static and dynamically-generated HTTP content from one or more Web applications.

Oracle HTTP Server

Oracle9iAS uses the Oracle HTTP Server, which is built on Apache Web server technology. Oracle HTTP Server offers scalability, stability, speed, and extensibility. It also supports Java Servlets, JavaServer Pages, Perl, PL/SQL, and CGI applications.

Oracle9iAS Containers for J2EE

Oracle9iAS provides a complete set of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) containers written entirely in Java that execute on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) of the standard Java Development Kit (JDK). You can run Oracle9iAS Containers for J2EE (OC4J) on the standard JDK that exists on your operating system.

Oracle Enterprise Manager WebSite

The Oracle Enterprise Manager Website provides Web-based management tools designed specifically for Oracle9iAS. Using this Web site and its Oracle9iAS Home Pages, you can monitor and configure the components of Oracle9iAS installations. You can deploy applications, manage security, and create and manage Oracle9iAS clusters. The Oracle Enterprise Manager Web is installed on every Oracle9iAS host as part of the Oracle9iAS installation option.

Oracle Enterprise Manager Console

The Oracle Enterprise Manager Console and its three-tier architecture provide a wider view of your Oracle environment, beyond Oracle9iAS. Use the Console to automatically discover and manage Oracle databases, application servers, and Oracle applications across your entire network. The Console and its related tools are installed as part of the Oracle9iAS Infrastructure installation option.

Oracle9iAS Portal

Oracle9iAS Portal is a complete solution for building, deploying, and monitoring Web database applications and content-driven Web sites. Oracle9iAS Portal enables you to create and view database objects through an easy-to-use, HTML-based interface, and provides tools for creating HTML-based interfaces. It also allows you to resolve performance problems using performance tracking facilities, and enables you to manage database security through its interface.

Oracle9iAS Wireless

Oracle9iAS Wireless is a portal service for delivering information and applications to mobile devices. Using Oracle9iAS Wireless, you can create custom portal sites that use different kinds of content, including Web pages, custom Java applications, and XML-based applications. Oracle9iAS Wireless sites make this diverse information accessible to mobile devices without you having to rewrite the content for each target device platform.

Oracle9iAS Discoverer

Oracle9iAS Discoverer is a business intelligence tool for analyzing data. With the Discoverer user interface, users can access and analyze database data. There are two Oracle9iAS Discoverer components:

• Oracle9iAS Discoverer Plus is the Internet version of the award-winning Windows version of Discoverer. With Discoverer Plus, business professionals can get and analyze data in a company's database without having to understand complex database concepts. Using Wizard dialogs and menus, Discoverer Plus guides users through the steps to get and analyze data to support their business decisions.

• Oracle9iAS Discoverer Viewer is a tool for viewing workbooks created by Discoverer Plus users. Discoverer Viewer can also be used to integrate database output into a Web site and portal. In addition, it is easy to customize Discoverer Viewer to conform to a particular Web site look-and-feel, and to build custom Discoverer applications for the Web. Discoverer Viewer is optimized for performance and designed to minimize network traffic.

Oracle9iAS Reports Services

Oracle9iAS Reports Services provides an easy-to-use, scalable, and manageable solution for high-quality database publishing and reporting by creating dynamic reports for the Web and across the enterprise. It enables you to implement a multi-tiered architecture for running your reports.

Oracle9iAS Clickstream Intelligence

Oracle9iAS Clickstream Intelligence collects data from Web site activities and presents it in reports. You can use Oracle9iAS Clickstream Intelligence to:

• Read Web server logs, parsing cookies and query string data to identify many Web site activities

• Transform Web server log data into business information, such as number of hits and time spent on a page by an user

• Integrate Web traffic data with business transaction data from CRM and ERP applications

• Condense enormous volumes of data into meaningful reports

Oracle9iAS Forms Services

Oracle9iAS Forms Services deploys Forms applications with database access to Java clients in a Web environment. Oracle9iAS Forms Services automatically optimizes class downloads, network traffic, and interactions with Oracle databases. Applications are automatically load-balanced across multiple servers and, therefore, can easily scale to service any number of requests.

Oracle9iAS Personalization

Oracle9iAS Personalization provides real-time analysis and recommendations for e-business sales channels, such as Web stores, application hosting environments, and business call centers. Oracle9iAS Personalization provides an integrated real-time recommendation engine that is deployed using Oracle9iAS.

Oracle9iAS Unified Messaging

Oracle9iAS Unified Messaging provides access to all message types using any access method. Voice mail, e-mail, fax, and any other mail types are available to users through their choice of access channel and device. A single message store is used for voice mail, e-mail, and fax messages that provides storage, management, and access to all types of information. The message store provides delivery, telephone processing, wireless notification, browser-based clients (both Web and wireless), and administration utilities.

Oracle9iAS Metadata Repository

Oracle9iAS Metadata Repository is a pre-seeded database containing metadata needed to run Oracle9iAS instances.

Oracle Internet Directory

Oracle Internet Directory enables sharing information about dispersed users and network resources. Oracle Internet Directory implements the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), version 3.

Oracle9iAS Single Sign-On

Oracle9iAS Single Sign-On creates an enterprise-wide user authentication to access multiple accounts and Oracle9iAS applications.

Oracle Management Server

Processes system management tasks and administers the distribution of these tasks across the network using the Oracle Enterprise Manager Console. The Console and its three-tier architecture can be used with the Oracle Enterprise Manager Website to manage not only Oracle9iAS, but your entire Oracle environment.

Oracle XML Developer Kit

The Oracle XML Developer Kit (XDK) contains the necessary XML component libraries and utilities to give developers the ability to easily XML-enable applications and Web sites. Oracle XDK supports development in Java, C, C++, and PL/SQL with a collection of libraries, command-line utilities, and tools.

Oracle9iAS Portal Developer's Kit

The Oracle9iAS Portal Developer's Kit (PDK) is the framework for seamless integration into Oracle9iAS Portal. Oracle9iAS PDK supports development of portlets and services on platforms using Oracle9iAS Portal.

Oracle9iAS Wireless Software Developer Kit

Oracle9iAS Wireless Software Developer Kit (SDK) is a light development version of Oracle9iAS Wireless. It is an off-line environment that enables developers to create and test Mobile XML applications. With Oracle9iAS Wireless SDK, application developers can test and simulate applications without needing to support a complete Oracle9iAS Wireless installation.

Oracle LDAP Developer's Kit

Oracle LDAP Developer's Kit supports client interaction with any LDAP-compliant directory server, for example, Oracle Internet Directory. The toolkit provides tools and development libraries to support client calls to directory services, encrypted connections, and enables you to manage your directory data.