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Authority supports PKI-based (strong) authentication methods and provides
assertion services.
Other Components
There are several other optional components that may be important in some cases,
depending on corporate business requirements. These components include:
Oracle Integration – Oracle Integration provides a true
Service-Oriented Architecture
(SOA) that can be used to build an enterprise infrastructure for application-to-application
communication. Even though the applications may be dissimilar in many ways, Oracle
Integration makes use of standards-based tools to communicate between heterogeneous
platforms.
Oracle BPEL Process Manager – Oracle BPEL utilizes cutting-edge technology to
provide methods for assembling a set of discrete services into an end-to-end process flow
that closely emulates natural Business processes. Oracle BPEL Process Manager offers
substantially reduced cost and effort for designing Enterprise applications containing
mission-critical business logic.
Oracle Business Activity Monitoring – Oracle Business Activity Monitoring (Oracle
BAM) provides a comprehensive set of tools for building interactive dashboards and
related business alert mechanisms. Oracle BAM provides crucial aid for business
executives and operations managers that need to make decisions based on real-time data.
Oracle Enterprise Manager – Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control is the
primary tool offered by Oracle for monitoring and managing everything in the Oracle
environment, including Oracle databases, Oracle Application Server, and Oracle
Collaboration Suite. Grid Control offers comprehensive management and monitoring
capabilities, including automatic monitoring for all targets.
Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2 Features
Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2 is a full featured release, integrating all software
modules. Therefore, it is entirely possible to build an Enterprise OracleAS
implementation with just Release 2 components.
At the most basic level, OracleAS Release 2 is composed of middle tier components and
infrastructure tier components. (See the detailed descriptions in the previous section.)
The middle tier components include the following install types and components:
• J2EE and Web Cache – this install type includes the following components:
o Oracle HTTP Server
o Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE (OC4J)
o OracleAS Web Cache
o Oracle JDeveloper (optional)
o Oracle TopLink (optional)
• Portal and Wireless – this install type includes all of the J2EE and Web Cache
components, plus the following components:
o OracleAS Portal