List of Figures

1-1 Application Development Challenges: Application Requirements

1-2 Application Deployment Challenges: System Requirements

1-3 Oracle Application Server Solutions

2-1 Oracle HTTP Server Request Flow

2-2 Oracle HTTP Server Process Architecture

2-3 Oracle HTTP Server HTTP Request–Response Cycle

2-4 J2EE Distributed Multi-tiered Application Architecture

2-5 Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE Architecture

2-6 TopLink Components in the Development Cycle

2-7 The OracleAS TopLink Mapping Workbench in a TopLink Environment

2-8 OracleAS TopLink Application Components

2-9 OracleAS TopLink Metadata

2-10 Oracle Application Server Web Services Architecture

2-11 Oracle Application Server Forms Services Request Flow

2-12 Oracle Content Management SDK Architecture

2-13 MapViewer Architecture

3-1 Sample Portal Page

3-2 OracleAS Portal Request Flow

4-1 Oracle Application Server Wireless

4-2 Oracle Application Server Wireless Overview

4-3 Oracle Application Server Wireless Architecture

4-4 Oracle Application Server Wireless - Adapters and Transformers

5-1 Oracle Application Server Business Intelligence Components

5-2 Oracle Reports Example

5-3 Oracle Application Server Reports Services Architecture

5-4 Oracle Application Server Discoverer Worksheet Example

5-5 Oracle Application Server Discoverer Architecture

5-6 Oracle Application Server Personalization Architecture

6-1 Oracle Application Server ProcessConnect Components

6-2 Adapter Framework, Adapters, and Integration Manager (Runtime)

7-1 Oracle Application Server Infrastructure Components

9-1 Caching Architecture

11-1 Oracle Application Server Security Architecture

12-1 Java Developer Topology

12-2 Portal and Wireless Developer Topology

12-3 Forms, Reports, and Discoverer Topology

12-4 Integration Architect and Process Modeler Topology

12-5 Enterprise Data Center Topology for Java Applications

12-6 Enterprise Data Center Topology for Portal, Wireless, Business Intelligence, and Forms Applications

12-7 Departmental Topology

12-8 Cold Failover Cluster

12-9 Active Failover Clusters