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o OracleAS Wireless
• Business Intelligence and Forms – this install type includes all of the J2EE and
Web Cache components, the Portal and Wireless components, and the following
components:
o OracleAS Personalization
o OracleBI Discoverer – includes the following components:
 OracleBI Discoverer Plus
 OracleBI Discoverer Viewer
 OracleBI Discoverer Portlet Provider
o OracleAS Reports Services
o OracleAS Forms Services
The Infrastructure tier components include:
• OracleAS Metadata Repository – optionally integrated with a corporate Oracle
database
• Oracle Identity Management Components
OracleAS Release 2 features flexible, expandable implementation options. Middle tier
components may be distributed across multiple servers. This can be done to improve
performance or for management convenience. The group that contains these distributed
components is called an OracleAS Farm. An OracleAS Farm shares a common Meta-
data repository. Another option is to duplicate or “clone” an Application Server to one or
more copies. This forms an OracleAS Cluster. OracleAS Clusters are used to implement
High Availability architectures, as well as to improve performance.
Oracle Application Server 10g Release 3 Features
Oracle Application Server 10g Release 3 (10.1.3) is a focused release, centered on J2EE
Applications. This release features the following middle tier components:
• Oracle HTTP Server
• Oracle Containers for J2EE (OC4J)
• Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Application Server Control
• Oracle Process Manager and Application Server
There are several improvements in the J2EE implementation. The new version of OC4J
containers meets the J2EE 1.4 specification. There is also a new version of Application
Server Control that is based on the Java Management Extensions (JMX) technology.
Oracle Process Manager and Notification Server (OPMN) performs an enhanced role,
including improved clustering capabilities. OC4J also includes a new, more flexible
method for grouping OC4J instances that is different from the Release 2 Farms/Clusters
model. The new OC4J grouping method facilitates the deployment and management of
J2EE applications across a cluster topology.
At the time of this whitepaper (January 2007 no software modules other than those listed
above were supported by OracleAS Release 3. Specifically, the following modules are
not supported:
• Portal and Wireless middle tier
• Business Intelligence and Forms middle tier