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9iAS
- Internet Application Server
- Application server provides middle tier infrastructure
- EJB and CORBA support
- Competes with Weblogic, Websphere
- Comes with Oracle Portal (formerly WebDB)
- Easy to use tool for building HTML-based interfaces to database data
- Also can use to manage DBs
Notes:
To support large Internet applications, Oracle also created a middleware component. (The middle tier supports business logic, removing that overhead from the database server and/or the display tier.) Oracle’s first attempt was a product called Oracle Application Server (OAS). This product was overshadowed by competitors BEA Systems Weblogic and IBM’s Websphere. Oracle has since rewritten the product; its new name is Internet Application Server, or iAS.
Oracle Portal (formerly called WebDB) provides an HTML interface that end-users, programmers and database administrators can use to build Web-based database applications. End-users can build simple interfaces to their data. Programmers can create more robust interfaces while administrators can use Portal to view and manage database objects.