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…Principal Features…


Notes:

After releasing Oracle8 (8.0), Oracle Corp indicated that the Internet was the key to its’ future success. Since then the company has added new features and products designed for Internet and Web application support.
Oracle9i provides a built-in Web server from Apache. This means that PL/SQL can be used to generate dynamic Web pages that access data in the database.
Oracle also added support for Java in the database (via a Java Virtual Machine, JVM, installed in the database) and created an application server that also contained a Java virtual machine. (Large applications typically require a middle tier application server to support the business logic. Oracle provides this in the form of iAS. Note that Oracle Corp’s first application server - OAS - was not very popular and has been rewritten and re-released as iAS.)
Developers can now write enterprise-strength Java applications using the Oracle product suite – Oracle9i database and iAS. These two products together will support Servlets and JSP (version 1.1 compliant - includes custom tag libraries) for the web-based front end, CORBA and EJB support in iAS, and JDBC, SQLJ and stored procedures (Java or PL/SQL) for database access (data management).
The interMedia product provides indexing and searching of text data. The interMedia Audio Image and Video product provides the storage, retrieval, management, and manipulation of multimedia data.