Application Tier

In addition to standard Oracle Applications components, the Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub application tier includes the following:

Oracle LSH Application Server: The Oracle LSH Application Server renders the user interface using the Oracle Applications Framework and handles the communication between the user interface and the database using the Java Runtime Environment.

Oracle LSH Distributed Processing (DP) Server: The Oracle LSH DP Server handles the communication between Oracle LSH and the external processing systems required to support the IDEs.

Processing Systems

XML Publisher is required for internal Oracle LSH processing. The other systems are required only if you are developing Oracle LSH Programs in those technologies:

• Oracle XML Publisher is used by Oracle LSH to run system reports. Oracle LSH also uses XML Publisher to create Report Sets as a single PDF output with a unified table of contents and custom templates.

• Oracle Reports executes user-developed Oracle Reports Programs.

• Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher executes user-developed Oracle BIP Programs.

• SAS executes user-developed SAS Programs.

• Oracle Discoverer Plus. Accessed by Consumer clients through a Web browser, this application generates data visualizations based on user-developed Oracle LSH Discoverer Business Areas.