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Installation and Configuration Considerations for an Enterprise Topology 2-1
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Installation and Configuration
Considerations for an Enterprise Topology
The following sections contain installation and configuration considerations for these
topologies:
■ J2EE Applications Topology
■ Enterprise Topology: Portal, BI, Wireless, Forms and Reports Services Installation
and Configuration
■ Departmental Topology: Departments Hosting Their Applications
■ Enterprise Topology: Development Life Cycle Topology Installation and
Configuration
■ Enterprise Topology Post-Installation Tasks
■ J2EE Applications Topology Post-Installation Tasks
■ What to Read Next
2.1 J2EE Applications Topology
Table 2–1 summarizes considerations when installing and configuring a J2EE
Applications topology in an enterprise environment such as a data center.
Table 2–1 Installation Considerations for the J2EE Application Developer Topology
Consideration Deployment Scenarios
Install Multiple Host installations on hardware clusters, NFS
machines
Multiple Middle Tier instances
Dedicated Product Metadata Services for Portal applications
Shared Product Metadata Services for some applications
Shared Security Services for throughout the enterprise
Central Management Services
Support for Test to Stage to Production cycles
Oracle Application Server won’t break if there are hard disk
replacements, CPU changes, or RAM upgrades